Presentation of Draft Report on “Healthy Environment, Healthy People”

The UNEP ‘Healthy Environment, Healthy People’ draft report summarizes for governments, policy-makers and stakeholders the evidence of the linkages between environmental quality and human health and wellbeing, but also points to the broader drivers of these linkages, including consumption, inequality, unplanned urbanization, migration, unhealthy and wasteful lifestyles, and unsustainable production patterns. The report has been submitted to the Open-ended CPR in preparation for the Ministerial Policy Review Session United Nations Environment Assembly 2, which takes place from 23-27 May 2016.

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The draft report falls within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which highlights critical links between development, the environment, human well-being and the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation.

The report was prepared by UNEP in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Montreal Protocol, and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, and it received contributions from other UN agencies and from stakeholders as well.

The presentation of the report at the OECPR can be followed live here.
For the full report, click here. Please note it is a draft, therefore we kindly ask you not to quote it.