On 21 October 2021, the annual report of the Lancet Countdown to track the progress on health and climate change was published. It concludes that a rapid decarbonisation could prevent most of the 3.3 million deaths from air pollution that occur globally each year, the 842,000 deaths associated with excessive red meat consumption, and result […]

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), over 450 organisations representing over 45 million health workers, together with over 3,400 individuals from 102 different countries, have written an open letter to Heads of State around the world as well as every nation’s lead climate negotiator, calling for urgent climate action to protect people’s health. Please find the letter here.

On 7 December 2020, CPME and the Lancet Countdown are co-launching the 2020 EU Policy Brief, focusing on infectious disease, city-level climate change and its health related economic costs. The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary collaboration between 120 experts from more than 35 institutions dedicated to monitoring the evolving health […]

On 28 February 2020, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), together with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the European Federation of Allergy & Airways Diseases Patients´ Association (EFA), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) sent a joint letter to the members of the Environment Council of the […]

On 16 November 2019, the CPME Board adopted the ’CPME Policy on Air Quality and Health’ (CPME 2019/073 FINAL).

Brussels, 29 November 2018 – New research published in The Lancet medical journal today shows that emissions, climate change and rising temperatures are already exposing people everywhere to an unacceptably high health risk. The Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), in collaboration with the Lancet Countdown, has published a Briefing for EU Policymakers  focusing on the […]