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High Level Event: Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All

July 31, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm BST

High Level Event: Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All – A Call for Emergency Action

Royal Over Seas League, Park Place, London SW1A 1NS
2.00- 4.00pm 31stJuly, 2019

Agenda

A Collaborative Initiative by the InterAction Council 

Purpose: 

  • A high level discourse on the options for declaring and advancing an Emergency Response to the Climate and Environmental Crisis
  • To launch and disseminate the ‘Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All’ and identify next steps with supportive organisations

 

Co-Chairs: 

HE Winnie Kiap, High Commissioner, Papua New Guinea, former Chair of the Commonwealth Secretariat Board of Governors

Ella Robertson, Managing Director, International, One Young World

 2.00pm: Welcome and Introductions 

 2.10pm: Context and Letter from HE Bertie Ahern, Co-Chair of the InterAction Council – a Group of former Heads of Government and World Leaders: www.interactioncouncil.org

 2.20pm: ‘The Climate and Planetary Emergency requires leadership from us all”  

Video message: Dr David Nabarro, Strategic Director, 4SD – Skills, Systems and Synergies for Sustainable Development; Co-director, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London; supporting the Nature-based Solutions workstream for the Climate Action Summit in September and former Special Advisor to the UN SG, on Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

2.25pm: ‘Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All – A Call for Emergency Action’ Presentation by Professor Joanna Nurse, Strategic Advisor to the InterAction Council and former Head of Health and Education, the Commonwealth.

2.45pm: ‘Declaring an Emergency Response for the Climate and Environmental Crisis’ 

A High Level Discussion on Options and Mechanisms for Emergency Action

Introduced and moderated by Lieutenant General Louis Lillywhite, CB, MBE, Chatham House and former Surgeon-General UK Armed Forces.

3.00pm: Country Perspectives – from Country Representatives:  Current impacts, future challenges and potential benefits of declaring an Emergency Response to the Climate and Environmental Crisis.

3.25pm: Partner and Stakeholder Perspectivesto enable Action– Young People and the Well-Being of Future Generations, endorsing and supportive organisations, statements and videos re the ‘Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All’.

3.55pm: Summary and Recommended Next Steps

 4.00pm Close and Refreshments and Group Photo 

‘A Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All’

– A Call for Emergency Action – a Summary:

“The Planet is Sick – and we all need to work together to ensure the health and wellbeingof future generations” HE Bertie Ahern, Co-Chair of the InterAction Council, former Taoiseach, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland.

 Summary:

As Guardians for Health, and those who are deeply committed to securing the Health of the Planet for the wellbeing of current and future generations, for all, we call for the urgent establishment of an Emergency Response to the Climate and Environmental Crisis, at global, regional, national and community levels. With current IPCC projections placing us on a trajectory for a 3-4 C temperature rise by 2100 and 3-10 C by 2200, combined with the increasing risk from tipping points, that could increase temperatures and sea levels further, we stand at a critical juncture in the history of our Planet. Moreover, we are at the crossroads to our very existence, as well as that of the majority of life on this Earth, having already seen an estimated 60% decline of our mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, with further estimates of nearly one million species at risk of extinction over the coming decades, we stand at the threshold of a sixth mass extinction. Over the next decade, we are the generation that holds the responsibility to reverse the epidemic acceleration of carbon emissions and to urgently stabilise the risks from runaway climate change.

  • As Guardians for protecting our health and wellbeing, now and for future generations, we advocate for this ‘Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All’which calls for emergency action, based upon the following overarching vision and principles:
  • Vision:To Secure a Healthy Planet now and for the Well-Being of Future Generations.

Principles:

To place the Health of the Planet and the well-being of current and future generations at the heart of decision making

To act with speed and scale, with the urgent establishment of an Emergency Response mechanism at Global, National and Community levels

Action:

  1. Security– A Critical Care Response for the Planet’s Health: with the declaration of a Climate and Environmental Crisis and the urgent establishment of an Emergency Response mechanism to ensure the rapid reversal of carbon emissions, the stabilisation of risks from runaway climate change and the protection of vulnerable populations.
  2. Recovery– Rehabilitation and Resilience: to enhance the recovery of the Planet’s Biodiversity and Eco-systems, creating healthy air, water, land and food systems, scaled up through Universal Health Systems for Planet, Place and People.
  3. A FlourishingPlanet for All: combat denial and eco-anxiety bypromoting sustainable wellbeing by maximising multiple health and environmental benefits, including healthy eco-systems, and multi-sector, systems based urban planning and ‘One Health for One Planet Education’ approaches across the life-course, to create connected communities and cyclical economies, for a flourishing Planet for all.
  4. Guardianshipfor a Healthy Planet: every organisation and community to establish a ‘Guardian for the Planet’s Health’ responsible for:Planetary first aid, Emergency responses, Guardianship, Advocacy, Solutions, Unifying action and Sustaining a flourishing planet (PEGASUS); enabled by a Healthy Planet Index.
  5. Collaborative – Community and Health Professional Action:everyone can become a community ‘Guardian for the Planet’s Health’to: protect and strengthen resilience by greening communities; reduce consumption and waste, recycle and use clean energy and transport; walk, cycle and communicate digitally and shift to healthy, planet friendly foods. Community members, including health professionals can lead by example with quality services and promote healthy green communities with resilient families.

Endorsing Organisations: For your interest, please see the list of endorsing partners:

  • InterAction Council (former heads of government group)
  • World Federation of Public Health Associations
  • World Psychiatric Association
  • World Organisation of Family Doctors –Working Group on the Environment
  • International Federation of Environmental Health
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature, Urban Alliance
  • NCD Alliance
  • Commonwealth Medical Association
  • Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health
  • Commonwealth Local Government Forum
  • Commonwealth Royal Society
  • Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators
  • Commonwealth Human Ecology Council
  • Commonwealth Association of Museums
  • Commonwealth Association of Planners
  • One Young World
  • International Federation of Medical Students Association
  • Planetary Health Alliance
  • Salzburg Global Seminar
  • Engineers for Social Responsibility Inc.
  • Welsh Commission for the Well-Being of Future Generations
  • Faculty of Public Health, UK
  • The National Institute of Public Health, Denmark, University of Southern Denmark
  • Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
  • School of International Futures
  • Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development
  • Association of International Accountants
  • World Health Summit
  • Islamic World Academy of Sciences
  • Arab World Association of Young Scientists

Details

Date:
July 31, 2019
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm BST
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Venue

Royal Over Seas League
Park Place,
London, SW1A 1NS United Kingdom
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+44 20 7408 0214
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