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HEAL and EUREGHA launch the "Climate Change and Health Good Practice Awards"

On the occasion of the year’s World Health Day 2008 the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the EUropean REGional Health Authorities (EUREGHA) network launch a Good Practice Award for local and regional mitigation and adaptation projects that simultaneously promote human health and protect the climate.

The competition has two awards categories: climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, aiming to showcase health focused projects where establishments have reduced their carbon footprint or are preparing themselves for the inevitable changes that climate change will bring.

Through this competition the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the EUropean REGional Health Authorities (EUREGHA) hope to collect breathing examples of transferable climate change and health protection measures to enable successful projects to be applied across Europe.

(HEAL) and (EUREGHA) encourage regions, health facilities and universities with any experience in the field of climate change and health to enter their good practice competition.

All competition entries will be assessed by an independent panel of judges. Awards will be announced at the “Climate Change and the Challenges for Public Health: Engaging the Regions” Conference held at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels on the 24 June 2008.

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For further information

- World Health Day
- Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
- EUropean REGional Health Authorities (EUREGHA)
- Committee of the Regions
- Good_Practice_Awards _Call_FINAL
- Information_Release_ Good_Practice_Award

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Last modified on April 18 2008.

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