During the week of September 20th, New York City became a hotbed of activity on climate change, with the confluence of the UN Climate Summit convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Climate Week NYC and the People’s Climate March.
Notably, these events marked an unprecedented level of engagement by the health sector from the grassroots on upwards, galvanized by the growing body of evidence on the linkages between climate change and human health.
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- Photos 1 to 7: People's Climate March in New York City
- Photos 8 to 11: People's Climate March in Brussels (Photos by HCWH Europe)
- Photos 12 to 21: Civil Society Event on Action in Climate Change and Health
- Photos 15 and 16: Joshua Karliner, Director of Global Projects and International Team Coordinator for Health Care Without Harm
- Photo 18: Gina McCarthy, US EPA Administrator
- Photo 19: Asterio Takesy, Amabassador Extra-Ordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Sates of America Federated States of Micronesia
- Photo 20: Donna Shabala, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Photo 21: Maria Neira, WHO Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
- Photo 22: John Balbus (Senior Advisor for Public Health at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA), Gary Cohen (HCWH's president and founder), Josh Karliner (HCWH's International Team Coordinator and Director of Global Projects) and Nick Watts (from the Global Climate and Health Alliance) at the UN Summit on Climate
Source - Photos by Josh Karliner: https://twitter.com/JoshKarliner, by Jennifer Wang: https://twitter.com/jenwang21 and by HCWH US & Canada