2 October 2011: The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report on gender, climate change and health, which is based on the recognition that the effects of climate on human society, and our ability to mitigate and adapt to them, are mediated by social factors, including gender.
September 2011: The World Health Organization (WHO) has made available a database containing air quality data sets for 1100 cities across 91 countries including an analysis of the burden of disease associated with urban outdoor pollution.
August 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published submissions to the Transitional Committee for the design of the Green Climate Fund.
17 June 2011: The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe have co-organized a workshop, titled "Working Together for Sustainable and Healthy Urban Transport," which discussed strategies, policies and measures to promote innovative policies to support walking and cycling as increasingly viable and attractive modes of urban mobility.
14 June 2011: The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a report on health co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the housing sector, the first of a new series of reports on health in the green economy.
24 May 2011: The 64th World Health Assembly, which met from 16-24 May 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland, considered progress on the World Health Organization's (WHO) work on climate change and health and adopted, among other decisions, several resolutions and reports in support of health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
15 April 2011: Hosted by the Vice Mayor of the city of Shanghai and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Bank, the International Symposium on Urban Health and Meteorology shared international experience in using meteorological information for public health, to inform the Shanghai Health Meteorology Service Programme.
15 April 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published a number of documents in preparation for the 34th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), which will take place in Bonn, Germany, from 6-16 June 2011.
April 2011: The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published the report "The MDGs in Europe and Central Asia: Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forward.”
6 April 2011: The second Pan-African Climate and Health workshop was held from 4-6 April 2011, as part of the African region's preparation for the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UNFCCC to be held in Durban, South Africa, at the end of the year.
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