20 March 2024 15:00 – 16:00 CET
Background
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental risks to health, and urgent action is needed to lessen its harmful effects. This involves working across different sectors such as transportation, land use, energy, industry, and agriculture. Air pollution is also tied to other environmental risks, such as climate change and noise pollution. When taking action to reduce the health impacts of these environmental risks, air pollution will be reduced too. Similarly, improving air quality can lead to healthier populations by reducing the health effects of other environmental risks and by developing healthier environments, while considering a multisectoral approach.
There’s a lot of information, tools, and training available to help tackling air pollution and create healthier environments. Nevertheless, there is a need to bring all these resources together to smoothen the process for policymakers, researchers, city representatives and other actors to make resources easier accessible. This is the goal of the Directory of Resources for Planning Healthy Environments, an online repository with open access resources and tools updated on a regular basis providing information on the importance of planning and designing urban areas from a health perspective, as well as concrete guidance on how to do it.
Objective
- Launch and preview the directory of resources for planning healthy environments, including its multilingual versions (Spanish & French).
- Discuss the main opportunities and gaps in the field of environmental health, for exploring better solutions for a healthier environment.
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