The strategy is part of a draft report from the World Health Organization's chief on health, environment and climate.
GENEVA (AN) — With 7 million people a year dying from exposure to polluted air, the World Health Organization is weighing a new strategy to pinpoint the sources and take collective action to reduce risks.
The strategy is part of a draft report from WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on health, environment and climate change. He prepared a second draft report on how climate change was affecting the health of small island developing nations.
Health officials say millions of lives are at risk as the U.S. withdraws funding from treatment and prevention programs.
Record heat and rightward political shifts toward nationalist self-interest undermine efforts to cut fossil fuel dependence.
WHO's emergency moves follow months of warnings the U.N. health agency faces severe impacts if U.S. funding dries up.
The process of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty and WHO will take a year to complete.
"Europe faces a clear and present danger," E.C. President Ursula von der Leyen said as the emergency meeting began.
The averate rate of gains for women-held seats accelerated between 2000 and 2015, but slowed in the last decade.
The five-point plan, unveiled as "ReArm Europe," is Europe's largest military and economic mobilization effort this century.
After an extraordinary U.S. repudiation, Ukraine won pledges from world leaders to urgently boost Europe's self-defense.
