Green Deal and Health

Green Deal and Health
Rapporteur: MORENO BONILLA Juan Manuel, Commission: ENVE
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This opinion: - Highlights the health impacts of climate change, pollution and environmental degradation and gather information on local and regional impacts - Compiles solutions, best practices and interesting projects that address the impacts of climate change, pollution and environmental degradation in human health - Identifies policy frameworks, governance structures and enabling factors that facilitate the successful implementation of these initiatives that tackle both climate and environmental issues as well as human health aspects - Emphasizes that the implementation of the European Green Deal policies benefit EU citizens and enhance our health
New EU global health strategy: A recalibrated agenda
On 30 November 2022, 12 years after the adoption of the first strategy on the EU's role in global health in 2010, the European Commission unveiled the EU global health strategy with the overarching goal of improving global health security and ensuring better health for all . The document takes stock of lessons learnt from the pandemic and guides EU action in an evolving landscape of threats and opportunities, including towards reasserting responsibility for attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – currently unfinished business.
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EP - Briefing - 25-01-2023
The EU and global health security: Co-crafting the pandemic agreement and International Health Regulation
To prevent a repetition of the crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) member states launched two parallel government-led processes to introduce targeted amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and draft a new, legally binding pandemic agreement (WHO CA+). The EU, which is an informal observer without voting rights in the WHO, has been a key player in both processes. In line with its internal procedures and with its 2022 global health strategy, the EU has been actively involved in the discussions, and has tabled proposals for the WHO CA+ and amendments to the IHR.
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EP - Briefing - 23-10-2023
Health-related measures in the national recovery and resilience plans
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is the main element of Next Generation EU (NGEU), the EU's recovery plan, designed to help EU Member States navigate their way out of the COVID-19 crisis and towards a more resilient future. To receive financing from NGEU, each Member State had to prepare a national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), and include in it reforms and investment addressing six policy areas, or the six pillars of the RRF. The fifth pillar, 'Health, and economic, social and institutional resilience', has a broad scope, but around half of the measures included in it are health-related.
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EP - Briefing - 25-09-2023
Health effects of climate change: an overview of systematic reviews
In this study, we aimed to develop such a complete overview by synthesising systematic reviews of health impacts of climate change. This higher order overview of the literature will allow us to better prepare for the worsening health impacts of climate change, by identifying and describing the diversity and range of health impacts studied, as well as by identifying gaps in previous research. Our research objectives were to synthesise studies’ characteristics such as geographical regions, years of publication, and authors’ affiliations, to map the climate impacts, health outcomes, and combinations of these that have been studied, and to synthesise key findings.
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Rocque RJ, Beaudoin C,
Ndjaboue R, et al. Health
effects of climate change:
an overview of systematic
reviews. BMJ Open
2021
Health and Climate Change
The chapter explores key ethical challenges in global public health by focusing on the inseparable connection between the environment and health in times of climate change. The authors examine the problematic consequences on human and planetary health caused by the ongoing changes in our global climate: from direct to indirect effects on people, animals, and ecosystems, as well as from increased diseases to implications formental health.
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Walter Ricciardi, Laura Mancini. Journal of moral theology, 2021, Vol.1
A health perspective on the role of the environment in One Health
One Health is a cross-disciplinary approach to improve human health at the human-animal-environment interface. The role of the environment in this triad is often overlooked, however. This report explores and clarifies this role from a health perspective. In animal-mediated diseases, the environment plays a threefold role, acting as a reservoir where substances are accumulated and transported; as a focal point for ecological and chemical processes; and as a health mediator where disease agents from the environment are transferred to and affect animals and humans.
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WHO - 29 June 2022
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration, dedicated to
monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of governments’ delivery of their commitments under the Paris Agreement. The 2019 report presents an annual update of 41 indicators across five key domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement.
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Elsevier, 2019

Climate Change and the Health Sector by Alexander Thomas, K. Srinath Reddy, Divya Alexander, Poornima Prabhakaran (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2021-11-23
The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages between climate change and the health sector, with chapters on the impact of climate change on health, its connection to pandemics, and its effects on food, nutrition and air quality, while examining gendered and other vulnerabilities.

Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Public Health, Top Medical Journals Warn
The rapidly warming climate is the "greatest threat" to global public health, more than 200 medical journals are warning in an unprecedented joint statement that urges world leaders to cut heat-trapping emissions to avoid "catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse." The editorial, which was published in leading journals such as The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal, says the world can't wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to pass before addressing climate change.
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NPR - SEPTEMBER 7, 2021