{"id":994,"date":"2024-11-29T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efca.net\/?p=994"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:20:53","slug":"second-global-conference-on-air-pollution-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efca.net\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25 \u2013 27 March 2025&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Centro de Convenciones Cartagena de Indias |, Cartagena, Colombia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/events\/detail\/2025\/03\/25\/default-calendar\/second-global-conference-on-air-pollution-and-health\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/events\/detail\/2025\/03\/25\/default-calendar\/second-global-conference-on-air-pollution-and-health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><strong>*with pre- and post-conference sessions on 24 and 28 March*<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global conference on air pollution and health: Accelerating action for clean air, clean energy access and climate change mitigation<\/em>&nbsp;will highlight&nbsp;<strong>evidence-based, coordinated multi-sectoral solutions<\/strong>&nbsp;in cities, countries and regions to prevent communicable and noncommunicable disease, save lives, protect child health and limit climate change across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Key objectives of the conference include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Share the latest evidence on health risks of air pollution and energy poverty, assessment tools and resources for decision-making.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take stock of global progress since 2015 after the WHA resolution was passed and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Showcase health, climate, gender and equity co-benefits of air pollution and energy action.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mobilize, value and empower health professionals to \u2018prescribe\u2019 clean air for health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Iterate strategies to mitigate the health sector\u2019s environmental footprint.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harness climate and development finance to tackle air pollution and ensure a just energy transition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leverage health arguments to drive country cooperation and financial commitments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Countries, regions and cities join BreatheLife and commit to air pollution reductions by 2030 and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants include Ministers of Health, respective Ministers of Environment, Energy and officials of national, intergovernmental and development agencies; health professionals; mayors, local authorities and planners; representatives of critical sectors such as energy, transport, industry, waste and land-use; as well as delegates from research, academia and civil society. Attendance to this conference is by invitation only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 \u2013 27 March 2025&nbsp; Centro de Convenciones Cartagena de Indias |, Cartagena, Colombia https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/events\/detail\/2025\/03\/25\/default-calendar\/second-global-conference-on-air-pollution-and-health **with pre- and post-conference sessions on 24 and 28 March* The&nbsp;Global conference on air pollution and health: Accelerating action for clean air, clean energy access and climate change mitigation&nbsp;will highlight&nbsp;evidence-based, coordinated multi-sectoral solutions&nbsp;in cities, countries and regions to prevent communicable and noncommunicable disease, save lives, protect child health and limit climate change across the world. Key objectives of the conference include: Participants include Ministers of Health, respective Ministers of Environment, Energy and officials of national, intergovernmental and development agencies; health professionals; mayors, local authorities and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 00:27:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efca.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}