"AIR POLLUTION"

General Assembly takes action on Second Committee reports by adopting 37 resolutions, 2 decisions.

Environmental activist Maria Kolesnikova received the United Nations Environment Programme’s Champion of the Earth award in the Entrepreneurial Vision category. UNEP

Ahead of World Pneumonia Day, global health agency Unitaid calls on all partners to dramatically increase funding for the oxygen response and joins the Every Breath Counts Coalition in urging high-burden country governments to take action to reduce air pollution-related pneumonia deaths. UNITAID

Women took the global stage today in Glasgow to show that climate change isn’t gender neutral, and that climate action needs to invest in women and girls. UNIFEED

The three-day UN Sustainable Transport Conference examines how transportation can contribute to climate response, economic growth and sustainable development.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, spells out the global health community’s prescription for climate action based on a growing body of research that establishes the many and inseparable links between climate and health. WHO

New World Health Organization Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at even lower concentrations than previously understood. The guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect the health of populations, by reducing levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. WHO

Work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016, according to the first joint estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO). WHO

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General 

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.