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Inter Academy Medical Panel Statement on the health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change

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Prior to the 2010 UN Climate Change Talks in Cancun, Mexico, the Inter Academy Medical Panel (IAMP), of which the Academy of Medical Sciences is a member, published a statement on the health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change.

The Statement makes a distinct contribution to discussions around climate change by highlighting the growing evidence that certain policies to mitigate climate change can, in and of themselves, improve health.

Collaboration by academies from so many different countries is of particular importance in view of the international nature of climate change, and the shift in world power towards the eastern and southern regions of the world. This alliance shows the important contribution of national academies to international affairs, alongside nation states, charitable foundations, companies, and non-governmental organisations.

Further details about IAMP and the most up to date list of academies that have endorsed the statement can be found at: http://www.iamp-online.org/ 

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Professor Detlev Ganten (Chair)

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, President of the World Health Summit Charité Berlin, Chairman of the Board,Charité Foundation and member of the IAMP Executive

Professor Roseanne Diab
Academy of Science of South Africa Executive Officer and Vice-Chair of the InterAcademy Council Review of the InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor Sir Andrew Haines FMedSci
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Professor Thomas Mettenleiter
Director of Institute of Molecular Biology at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Professor Tony McMichael
Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australia National University, Canberra

Professor Jonathan Patz
Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Professor Paulo Saldiva
Professor of Pulmonary Pathology and Chair of the Department of Pathology, Universidade de São Paulo Medical School, Brazil

Professor Stig Wall
Professor of Epidemiology and Health care Research, Umea, University, Sweden

IAMP would also like to thank Professor Robert Souhami CBE FMedSci, Foreign Secretary of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences for his helpful contributions.

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