8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Activities in the WHO European Region 2013–2014 James Creswick Technical Officer

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8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Activities in the WHO European Region 2013–2014 James Creswick Technical Officer

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Country support Flooding in the Balkans: on-site country support provided to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. –Series of flooding factsheets produced –Health assessment of the flooding

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Country support: publications Protecting health from climate change : a seven-country initiative seven-country-initiative seven-country-initiative Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention (with Public Health England) european-region european-region

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Country support: publications Climate change and health: a tool for estimating health and adaptation costs economic-tool economic-tool Atlas of health and climate (WHO/WMO) atlas/en/ atlas/en/ Integrated Health Information Portal (IHIP), including climate change

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Research IMPACT2C: Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming Uses modelling to assess effects on water, energy, infrastructure, coasts, tourism, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems services, and health and air

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Research (cont.) RAMSES: Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities Aims to deliver evidence of the impacts of climate change and costs and benefits of adaptation measures, focusing on cities

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Research (cont.) EUPORIAS: European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessments on Seasonal and Decadal Timescales Aims to assess key knowledge gaps of important sectors and develop a few prototype predictions systems

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Research & policy development Greening health systems: meeting held in August 2013 to discuss technical requirements and develop a roadmap UN Informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (IIATT-SPHS)

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Policy development: WHD2014 World Health Day 2014: Vector-borne diseases Seven factsheets on: chikungunya, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme borreliosis*, malaria, tick-borne encephalitis*, West Nile virus Events at LHR and IAD

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Policy development: UNFCCC COP19 in Warsaw: WHO supported the global Climate and Health Summit, hosted two side-events and a WHO exhibit SBSTA40/SBI40 in Bonn: WHO hosted a side-event on relevance of IPCC finding for health, and had an exhibit. COP 20, Lima and COP21, Paris

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Policy development: EHP Health in Climate Change (HIC) working group of the European Environment and Health Task Force (EHTF). Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the 2008 Parma commitments underway; conference in Israel, November 2014.

8 th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen 24 June, 2014 Upcoming for 2014 WHO Conference on Health and Climate, 27–29 August, 2014 –Enhance resilience and protect health from climate change. –Identify the health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions. –Support health-promoting climate change policies.