An unhealthy climate? Calling for action and changing behaviour
Thursday 20 November – London
“We believe that human health must be at the heart of action on climate change. It must be embedded in the political debate, in strategies to change how we live and in how we plan for the future”
Dr Stephen Battersby, CIEH President
The CIEH is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. As part of our activities to highlight the impact of climate change on public health, the CIEH organised a landmark conference entitled An unhealthy debate? Calling for action and changing behaviour on 20 November 2008. For the first time, the conference has been webcast, allowing practitioners, who were unable to attend, to listen to the debates and discussions.
The conference took the form of a half day question time event with Stephen Battersby, CIEH President, asking speakers to highlight five major public health challenges posed by climate change. The conference was chaired by Radio 4 presenter Charlotte Smith. Speakers included food safety expert Prof Tim Lang of City University, Justin McCracken, Chief Executive of the HPA, Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair of the of the Food Standards Agency, David Pencheon, Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, Paul Bettison, Chair of the Local Government Association’ environment board and Paul Kelly, Director of Corporate Affairs at ASDA.
A full set of webcasts from the event are now available here. You can also access them from the quick links section on the right-hand side of the page, with the opening address from Graham Jukes, CIEH Chief Executive, followed by speakers in chronological order. Additional webcasts of the ensuing debate, in 3 sections, and the voxpops - interview highlights from the day are available. All webcasts are streamed from our multimedia site, and are viewable via any browser with flash and javascript enabled.
The CIEH believes that environmental health practitioners (EHPs) have a critical role to play in both mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. We hope this conference and in particular the webcast will act to encourage and motivate EHPs into playing a more active part in addressing the health implications of climate change.
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