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.
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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.
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EEN Director keynote address at the (...)

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:
Access to (...)

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 the need to (...)

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.

A report by Antoaneta Yoveva (Sustainable World Foundation) who attended the "WHO Meeting on Precautionary Policies and Health" on 12-13 September 2003, at the "Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire Environnementale" in Paris is available at the "Members Only" section of this website.
Members only: environment and health

The European Environment and Health Committee (EEHC), the steering group for the Budapest Conference, meets in Prague, Czech Republic, from 9-10 October 2003 to discuss the rapid progress in the many events and initiatives now building up to Budapest, and the major policy outcomes for the Conference.
The place on the agenda for issues of increasing concern such as the effects on health of extreme events related to the climate in Europe, such as heat and floods, is also an issue for the (...)