Budapest Conference, June 2004

The Healthy Planet News newsletter is published daily during the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health by a coalition of NGOs coordinated by the European Public Health Alliance Environment Network (EEN). Please find below the PDF version of issue IV - 25 June 2004. Previous issues: 24 June 2004 23 June 2004 22 June 2004

Healthy Planet News The Healthy Planet News newsletter is published daily during the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health by a coalition of NGOs coordinated by the European Public Health Alliance Environment Network (EEN). Please find below the PDF version of issue III - 24 June 2004. Today’s issue is focused on chemicals and the precautionary principle. Previous issues: 23 June 2004 22 June 2004 Following issue: 25 June 2004 EEN Director keynote (...)

The Healthy Planet News newsletter is published daily during the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health by a coalition of NGOs coordinated by the European Public Health Alliance Environment Network (EEN). Please find below the PDF version of issue II - 23 June 2004. Previous issue: 22 June 2004 Following issues: 24 June 2004 25 June 2004

The Healthy Planet News newsletter is published daily during the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health by a coalition of NGOs coordinated by the European Public Health Alliance Environment Network (EEN). Please find below the PDF version of issue I - 22 June 2004. Following issues: 23 June 2004 24 June 2004 25 June 2004

The European Environment Agency, WHO Europe and the Collegium Ramazzini will organise a one-day workshop just before the WHO Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environmental and Health. This meeting is organised to summarise the science of some emerging environmental hazards to children as a basis for precautionary and preventive actions and to identify elements of the information systems and policy approaches needed to protect children’s health. Draft Preliminary (...)

The fourth intergovernmental preparatory meeting on the health and environment process will take place in Malta on 25-26 March, 2004. On the agenda will be discussions around the Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan (also known as CEHAPE) and whether or not a Table of Actions should be annexed to the ministerial document. The CEHAPE contains four Regional Priority Goals that address four areas in which the highest burden of disease for children exists. This includes: (...)

New paragraph on prevention, equity and health promotion welcomed The latest version of the Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE) will be discussed at an inter ministerial Ad Hoc Working Group on the 15-16, December, 2003 in Brussels. EPHA will be represented by Peter Helms from EPHA member organisation, the European Respiratory Society. The new version has several new elements that EPHA has supported including: A new paragraph explicitly recognising (...)

Policy Director Genon Jensen gave a presentation to health and environment ministerial delegates during the Third Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting held in Evora 27-28 November, 2003 on civil society plans for the Budapest Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Europe, The future for our children. Please find presentation attached.

NGOs are preparing for their parallel meeting to coincide with the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health to be held in Budapest in June 2004. The Healthy Planet Forum 2004, will take place in June 22-25, , has a new website with news, ideas, information exchange and a mailing list. Ideas for workshops, exhibitions and other contributions from civil society are (...)

WHO has launched a monthly listserve to provide updates on news and developments from many sectors during the buildup to the Fourth Ministerial Conference. "The future for our children" is the theme of the Conference. Ministers of health and of environment from 51 countries across the WHO European Region will be making decisions on children’s environment and health, including the adoption of a children’s environment and health action plan for Europe. Subscribe to WHO (...)