{"id":5694,"date":"2018-01-12T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclive.in\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:29:22","slug":"unep-joins-combating-environmental-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/unep-joins-combating-environmental-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"UNEP Joins WHO for Combating Environmental Health Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"WHO: Breathe Life \u2013 The Walk Home\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ILIwAAYqAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">New York (ABC Live):Environmental Health Risks :\u00a0 Two United Nations agencies are teaming up in a major new initiative taking on the herculean task of combatting environmental health risks, which claim an estimated 12.6 million lives a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The partnership, announced Wednesday, between the UN Environment Programme (<a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">UNEP<\/span><\/a>) and the World Health Organization (<a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">WHO<\/span><\/a>), includes specific action to address air pollution, climate change and antimicrobial resistance as well as improve coordination on waste and chemicals management, water quality, and food and nutrition issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">\u201cOur health is directly related to the health of the environment we live in. Together, air, water and chemical hazards kill some 12.6 million people a year. This cannot and must not continue,\u201d said Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of WHO, in a\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/un-environment-and-world-health-organization-agree-major\"><span style=\"color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">news release<\/span><\/a>announcing the undertaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">\u201cThere is an urgent need for [us] to work more closely together to address the critical threats to environmental sustainability and climate \u2013 which are the foundations for life on this planet. This new agreement recognizes that sober reality,\u201d added Erik Solheim, the Executive Director of UNEP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The new collaboration has a particular focus on the developing world as the worst impacts of environmental pollution and the related deaths occur in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The initiative also includes joint management of the\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/breathelife2030.org\/\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">BreatheLife<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0advocacy campaign to reduce air pollution for multiple climate, environment and health benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two UN agencies have been cooperating in a range of health and environment areas.<\/p>\n<p>This latest partnership, is however, the most significant formal agreement on joint action across the breadth of environment and health issues in over 15 years, the agencies added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (ABC Live):Environmental Health Risks :\u00a0 Two United Nations agencies are teaming up in a major new initiative taking on the herculean task of combatting environmental health risks, which claim an estimated 12.6 million lives a year. The partnership, announced Wednesday, between the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,1],"tags":[3553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}