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Past Statements and Pledges on Climate and Health:

The Durban Declaration

Over 30 organisations signed or endorsed the Durban Declaration on Climate and Health and Call to Action at COP17 in 2011, including:
  • Health Care Without Harm
  • Climate and Health Council, UK
  • World Federation of Public Health Associations
  • Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Climate and Health Alliance, Australia
  • FHI360
  • groundWork South Africa
  • Health and Environment Alliance, Europe
  • International Council of Nurses
  • International Federation of Medical Students Associations
  • People’s Health Movement
  • PHI Center for Public Health and Climate Change, US
  • Projeto Hospitais Saudáveis, Brazil
  • Public Health Association of South Africa
  • World Health Organization
  • World Medical Association
  • World Vision

BMJ Statement calling for urgent action on climate change

This was issued at a conference convened by the BMJ and other organisations, on the Health and Security implications of Climate change, which was held in London on 17th October 2011

It opened with the lines 'Climate change poses an immediate, growing and grave threat to the health and security of people in both developed and developing countries around the globe'.  

The statement and full list of signatures are available at: http://climatechange.bmj.com/statement


In total there were 569 signatures, many of them high profile individuals from around the world, including both the health and the military professions.

Cancun Climate and Health Statement

This was launched in December 2010 and calls on negotiators to consider the "real costs" of climate change and the benefits of strong action by taking the human health dimension into account.

Copies in three languages can be downloaded at: 
http://www.env-health.org/resources/publications/article/cancun-climate-and-health

Signatory organisations included:
  • Climate and Health Council 
  •  Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
  • Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
  • International Council of Nurses (ICN
  •  International Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)
  • International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
  • World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA)
  • World Medical Association (WMA)

The Climate and Health Council Pledge

There are over 6000 signatories to the Climate and Health Council’s Pledge which started in 2007, including all of these organisations:

  • Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
  • Association of Public Health Observatories
  • Bio-Health Ltd
  • British Holistic Medical Association
  • British Medical Association
  • C3 Collaborating for Health
  • Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
  • Centre for International Peacebuilding
  • Conference of UK Postgraduate Medical Deans
  • Doctors for the Environment Australia
  • Doctors for Human Rights
  • Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Bristol
  • Faculty of Public Health
  • Finnish Medical Association
  • Green Occupational Therapy Network
  • GreenNet
  • Heads of Academic Departments for Public Health
  • Healthy Planet, Medsin
  • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • International Society of Doctors for the Environment
  • ISDE Austria:  The Austrian Doctors for a Healthy Environment (AeGU)
  • Israeli Medical Association
  • The Lancet
  • Leijerstam Medical AB
  • New Zealand Medical Students Association
  • OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health
  • People's Health Movement PHM
  • Physicians for Global Survival
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • Royal College of Physicians
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Royal Society of Medicine
  • Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LfM)
  • Swedish Medical Association
  • Swiss Doctors for the environment (Aerztinnen und Aerzte fuer Umweltschutz)
  • The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK
  • UK Public Health Association
  • University College London, United Kingdom
  • Wemos, The Netherlands

The text of the Pledge can be read at http://www.climateandhealth.org/the_pledge_31.html
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