The People's Health Hearing

Day for Tomorrow: Differently-abled individual's thoughts on climate change

Submitted by Marcalee Alexander, The Journal of Climate Change and Health

Birmingham Alabama, USA

Day for Tomorrow – Sustain Our Abilities | People's Health Hearing

This video portrays people with disabilities from three continents, and professionals working in rehabilitation. It introduces the idea of the “Day for Tomorrow” as a sister to earth day.

www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-climate-change-and-health

People's Health Hearing LIVE — Session 4

Listener's Reflections with Tatiana Garavito, Ken Henshaw, Rosalinda “Maan” Tablang, Tammam Aloudat, Kanahus Manuel and Noemí Gualinga.

Amazon, Ecuador, First Nations territory, Niger Delta, Philippines, Syria, UK

Session 4 – People's Health Hearing: Health Justice Means Climate Justice, at COP26 People's Summit

Listener’s Reflections

Abi Deivanayagam from Race & Health and Ben Eder from Medact facilitated the closing session of the People’s Health Hearing. We welcomed all of the listener’s to share their reflection from the testimonies they heard throughout the day and from the online gallery, weaving in their own stories of resistance and visions for justice. Tatiana Garavito closed the hearing with an invitation to hold an object that will support us to remember the stories we shared and listened to together.

Coal, a silent killer: dispersion of air pollution from coal power plants to 61 mega cities

Submitted by C40 Cities & CREA

Global

[Austin] Coal-Free Cities: the health and economic case for a clean energy revolution.

This library of videos show the dispersion of air pollution from coal power plants to 61 mega cities.

www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/Coal-free-cities-the-health-and-economic-case-for-a-clean-energy-revolution

People's Health Hearing LIVE — Session 2

With John Leo Algo, Mulindwa Patrick Hans, Simmone Ahiaku, Julia Avila and Melvine Otieno.

Africa, Amazon, London, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, UK

Session 2 – People's Health Hearing: Health Justice Means Climate Justice, at COP26 People's Summit

In session 2, Simmone Ahiaku, John Leo Algo, Mulinda Patrick Hans, Julia Avila and Melvine Otieno shared their testimonies from the UK, the Philippines, Uganda, Brazil and Kenya. The session was facilitated by Sophie Gepp from Health for Future and Amit Singh from Students for Global Health. To close, Tammam Aloudat and Noemi Gualinga shared their reflections as Listeners.

People's Health Hearing LIVE — Session 3

With Yasunidxs Guapondelig, Damiàn Verzeñassi, Goran Zangana and Observatory of Political Ecology of Venezuela.

Argentina, Cuenca, Ecuador, Iraq, kurdistan, venezuela

Session 3 – People's Health Hearing: Health Justice Means Climate Justice, at COP26 People's Summit

Session 3 was introduced by Erika Arteaga Cruz from the People’s Health Movement Ecosystems & Health Circle and Kavian Kulasabanathan from Race & Health, re-sharing the candles lit in the first session, acknowledging all of us together coming into this space from across the world. We heard testimonies from Paulo Granizo and Nidia María Solíz Carrión from Yasunidxs Guapondelig, Damián Verzeñassi from InSSA, Goran Zangana and the Observatorio de Ecologia Politica De Venezuela, who shared their testimonies from Ecuador, Argentina, Iraq and Venezuela. We heard at the end of the session from Tatiana Garavito and Kanahus Manuel, who shared their reflections as Listeners.

People's Health Hearing LIVE — Session 1

With AkpoBari Celestine, Patricia Miranda, Gopal Krishna, Raki Ap and Mafel Macalanda.

India, nigeria, Philippines, Punganay, West Papua

Session 1 – People's Health Hearing: Health Justice Means Climate Justice, at COP26

We started the People’s Health Hearing with Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay from the People’s Health Movement and Rhiannon Osborne from Students for Global Health setting out the space and the intentions for the day. Abi Deivanayagam from Race & Health invited us all to light a candle to mark the opening of the hearing. In session 1, we heard testimonies from Patricia Miranda, Akpobari Celestine, Mafel Macalanda, Gopal Krishna and Raki Ap bringing together their reflections from the Philippines, Nigeria, India and West Papua. To close the session, we heard from two of the listener’s, Ken Henshaw and Maan Tablang.

Fumigated

Submitted by Exaltación Salud

Argentina, BuenosAires, Exaltación de la Cruz, South America

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Exaltación Salud is a neighborhood group founded in 2012 that works for food sovereignty and to eradicate pesticides.

We work in order to live in a healthy environment. It is not possible to grow healthy food in diseased land. Through our struggle we have succeeded in completely banning aerial spraying.

We won a court case to successfully ban the application of hazardous agriculture substances within 1,000 meters of homes, schools and waterways.

We are currently involved in several criminal proceedings for attacks against health and the environment, against producers who use dangerous pesticides and the authorities that allow it.

@exaltacionsalud

Rethinking the Meaning of Health

Submitted by Paccha

Brighton, UK

Rethinking the Meaning of Health – Paccha Turner Chuji | People's Health Hearing

Health Impact of the Proposed Lamu Coal Plant

Submitted by Liza Mungatia, EcoMoran

Africa, Kenya, Nairobi

Back in 2018, a coal plant project was proposed in Lamu, which is in the coastal region of Kenya. Most importantly, it is one of the listed world heritage sites by UNESCO. Besides the foreseen impacts of the plant on the world heritage site, the community and biodiversity were at a risk. Coal being a black energy, it produces a lot of carbon emissions that not only have a greenhouse effect but also health consequences. Community members in Lamu are majorly indigenous people that are very innocent to me and it is not fair putting them in such a vulnerable situation.

Already, they are struggling with existing climate change impacts such as drought, famine, and heatwaves. Hence, bringing another problem that is health related does not sit right with me. Health issues related with coal power generation include respiratory complications. In addition, the materials that were to be used in this process would one way or another find their way into the water bodies (mostly the Indian Ocean) and through biomagnification and bioaccumulation they could cause adverse health effects to both the marine animals and the community members such as cancer which with time could affect a higher population.

These unforeseen health impacts are what drove me to get involved in the advocacy and capacity building campaigns against the coal plant project in Lamu. I am happy to report that eventually the court of law halted the project in June 2019. I will live to pride in that activity because I believe we saved a lot that could have affected the community in Lamu negatively.

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