CALLING ALL MIDWIVES AND STUDENTS OF MIDWIFERY
Why should I sign up to the Climate and Health Council’s pledge?
What am I signing up to?
Climate change and global health are inextricably linked. World governments have to halt climate change, if we are to protect health and stand a chance of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Maternal and child health are particularly vulnerable.
Governments have the chance to take decisive action at the UN conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen Nov/Dec 2009. Many believe this to be their and our last chance.
By signing the pledge here you will be pledging to do your bit as a health professional to:
- protect health, through active engagement to limit the causes of human-caused climate change
through active engagement to limit the causes of human-caused climate change
- advocate the establishment of a global, systematic, and consistent approach, led and implemented by governments NOW, based on an agreed global framework. The framework needs to promote the health, social justice, and survival of current and future generations, both rich and poor, both locally and globally.
the establishment of a global, systematic, and consistent approach, led and implemented by governments NOW, based on an agreed global framework. The framework needs to promote the health, social justice, and survival of current and future generations, both rich and poor, both locally and globally.
The Climate and Health Council’s website sets out the ingredients needed to achieve this aim.
Despite the central importance of halting climate change to global health, the health arguments have hardly featured in the UN negotiations so far – until this initiative.
Governments need to understand health professionals are serious and speaking with one voice on this. The more of us who show we are by signing up, the better.
THOUSANDS OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, from College Presidents to students, have already signed this pledge.
Your General Secretary, Professor Cathy Warwick, has signed.
Don’t delay. Sign up today. A single click, and it costs nothing.
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