XVI SDE Seminar Series towards
Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO
Air Pollution and Sustainable Development
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish
Time: 12:00 am - 1:30 pm - EDT (
Website: Website PAHO/WHO Rio+20 at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS
Environmental Health Inequalities in
EURO/WHO 2012 PDF [212p.] at: http://bit.ly/xA9tmV
The current
“………..We commit to promote an integrated and holistic approach to planning and building sustainable cities through support to local authorities, efficient transportation and communication networks, greener buildings and an efficient human settlements and service delivery system,
improved air and water quality, reduced waste, improved disaster preparedness and response and increased climate resilience……….”
“……Industry, transport, information and societal development in general, have combined during the past centuries in a very productive way to human kind. Thanks to this today’s modern societies enjoy the comfort of terrestrial, areal and maritime transportation; a massive amount of goods and services hand reachable, and information and communications 24/7 around the world. However, these developments have produced different air pollutants such as gases (carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, methanol, volatile organics, etc.) and a varied amount of particulate emissions (diesel, carbon, lead, silica, etc.). All together they have strongly polluted our planet, particularly our atmosphere.
Analyzing the sources of air pollution, mobile sources represented in road and air transportation are considered to be the biggest air polluters, enhanced by urban sprawl, traffic density and long commutes. While within the fixed sources industry, household combustion devices and agricultural/forest fire emissions are considered to contribute the most. Consequently, smog hanging over cities is probably the most familiar and visible form of air pollution that does contribute to global warming, the greenhouse effect, the climatic changes, within other phenomena, and it also yields very deleterious health effects in humans and all living forms and creatures on the planet.
WHO estimates that 2.4 million people die per year because of air pollution. Some studies even show that at a global level, deaths are more attributable to air pollution than to automobile accidents. People suffering from respiratory diseases, as well as children and elderly are much more vulnerable to be affected. Short-term effects on human health usually are eye, nose and throat irritations, and upper respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Long-term effects are often more severe, including chronic respiratory diseases, lung cancer, heart disease, brain/neurological damages and liver diseases, within others.
This seminar will address some of these problems that certainly affect human populations around the world and that should help position health within the context of human sustainable development.
Agenda
12:00 Introduction: Agnes Soares, Moderator, Regional Advisor Sustainable Development and Environmental Health PAHO/WHO
12:05 Air Pollution, Health and Sustainable Energy considerations for Sustainable Development:
Daniel S. Greenbaum, President, Health Effects Institute
12:20 A National Perspective on intervention on Urban Air Pollution for Health in Sustainable Development in
Leonora Rojas-Bracho, Director General
Urban and Regional Contamination National
12:30 Transportation policies and air pollution:
Dinesh Mohan, Volvo Chair Professor Emeritus, Transport Research and Injury Prevention Program,
WHO Collaborating Centre. Indian Institute of Technology
12:40 The challenge on air pollution and sustainable development from the Ministry of Health of
Victor Berrios, Chief Air Quality Surveillance Network (R.M), “Seremi de Salud R.M
12:50 Investing for Sustainable Development: Addressing the priorities in Latin American Cities:
Juan Carlos Belaustenguigoitia. World Bank’s Senior Environmental Economist
1 :00 Commentary: Nelson Gouveia,
1:10 Discussion
1:30 Adjourn
How to participate
In person:
PAHO/WHO
Online: via Elluminate link:
- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE
- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars
Related material:
Health impacts of Air Pollution - http://bit.ly/KJt2g8
Publications on environmental burdens of disease - http://bit.ly/L5bJmv
Environmental health inequalities in
SDE Seminar Series towards
For those who cannot follow the live seminar, we will have it available later at PAHO Rio+20 Toolkit at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS
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