By Richard Fuller, President, Pure Earth, Secretariat for the GAHP. Mandatory reporting of carbon emissions is the law for many businesses in some 40 countries worldwide. But reporting of companies’ […]
In July 2019, UNICEF organized a meeting with GAHP Secretariat Pure Earth in Madagascar that brought together over 66 representatives from more than 34 agencies, organizations and businesses to discuss […]
In addition to Madagascar, here is what is happening with HPAP in other countries: Colombia: HPAP has been completed, validated and adopted by the government as policy. Concept notes are being […]
In June 2019, Richard Fuller, President of Pure Earth, Secretariat for the GAHP, called on OECD members to take action to address the pollution crisis, noting that the foreign aid budgets of bilateral […]
The latest GAHP annual report covers accomplishments achieved over 2017 and 2018. This includes the groundbreaking report from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health and its wide-ranging impact, from the […]
Thanks to support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) and UN Environment, more than 24 representatives from 21 different organizations participated in GAHP’s kick-off incorporation meetings in early May in Geneva. […]
A new report from the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) has listed pollution has one of five direct drivers of change in nature with the largest […]
In 2019, the Journal of Health and Pollution will publish a special edition focusing on the relationship between climate change and environmental contamination. The suggested deadline for the special edition is […]
GAHP began 2019 with a new report–Pollution Knows No Borders—launched on January 8 at a global briefing held simultaneously in New York and London. Thank you to all GAHP members […]
Last week, Madagascar became the first country to complete a GAHP Health and Pollution Action Plan (HPAP), validated by the national government and officially adopted as policy by the Ministries of […]
