Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution
This past May, senior representatives from 19 international agencies gathered for a groundbreaking meeting hosted by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. These forward-thinking changemakers came together to brainstorm how to accomplish an ambitious but definitively achievable goal: to halve death and disability from all types of pollution by 2030. Together, the group set out to define the necessary steps to reduce the largest environmental cause of death and disease on the planet.
The meeting was an international display of commitment to fighting pollution and improving the health of communities. Participants included representatives from the Ministries of Environment of Ghana, Indonesia, Madagascar, the Philippines, and Sweden, the Ministry of Health of Kenya, the World Bank, European Commission, World Health Organization, UN Development Program, UN Environment, and UN Industrial Development Organization—as well as several civil society organizations and universities. . .