Comments on: Healthy Climate, Healthy People http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/17/healthy-climate-healthy-people/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jonny Currie http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/17/healthy-climate-healthy-people/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Jonny Currie Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:21:45 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=1014#comment-482 In speaking to a range of government delegations at Copenhagen so far, it seems the health message is seen as ‘implicit’ in a treaty text which so far has failed to adequately chart a road to the planet’s preservation. If we don’t act, the future health of millions around the world is at stake. Yet the earlier we do address our emissions, the quicker and greater our impacts on health in the global South and North can be.

If we can establish the voice of the health community throughout the coming months, there remains a strong chance a final framework can be agreed upon which both maintains a habitable planet for society, whilst narrowing the health gap between global rich and poor.

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