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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>Hi Claudio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>I agree on the importance of PHM being involved in discussions
and actions on global warming on the basis that global warming is here and now;
is already having an enormous impact on the lives of millions of vulnerable
people; is set to be the biggest contributor to global inequality and
poor health; and, unless the warming trajectory is stopped within a decade,
will lead to the collapse of civilisation.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>I would like to add a couple of points to David’s.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>1.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
T</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>o have
an awareness campaign around what a just sharing of the remaining atmospheric
commons would look like (i.e. in the wake of the high-consuming,
industrially-developed societies having already used up more than their fair
share of the atmospheric commons for dumping greenhouse gases, the question is
then how the remaining atmospheric commons should be divided up - or
should it be maintained in perpetuity for the security of future generations,
the health of the planet, etc?</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>The potential
implications of this are:</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-2.0in;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>i.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'> there
is no further room for the rich industrialised nations and peoples to continue
their current economic pathway or to continue to emit GHGs</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-2.0in;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>ii.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>the
concept of carbon ‘offsets’ is a furphy – just another profitable way for
corporations to relieve people’s consciences</span><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-2.0in;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>iii.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>the
‘bottom line’ for development must take into account carbon footprints and cap
on consumption levels for non essential goods and services.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>2.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'> Addressing
historical ecological debt and atmospheric ecological debt requires a
redistribution of wealth – between and within nations</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>3.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
E</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>missions
trading schemes (ETS), ie market mechanisms, will not solve the problem of
global warming – too complex, too difficult to monitor, not equitable, not
efficient, not sufficiently timely, at high risk of being controlled by such
market institutions as stock exchanges, banks, etc. – the very institutions
which nurtured the global financial crisis. Further ETSs amount to the
privatisation of the atmospheric commons. There is no evidence to date
that any of the carbon emissions trading schemes in existence work, but
there is a growing body of evidence that they are open to large scale fraud,
and have resulted in the transfer of billions to the largest polluters.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>4.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>
</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'>One other
point is that global warming is not an isolated issue – just the most urgent
manifestation of an unsustainable political economy. A real solution will
not be found through the market or technology – perhaps the PHM can be one of
the sites discussing what are the alternatives.</span><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>An excellent site to keep up to date with global warming issues
is: <a href="http://www.carbonequity.info/"><span style='color:#0012FF'>www.carbonequity.info</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>Regards</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1C4A7E'>Del Weston</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1C4A7E'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Claudio
Schuftan <<a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>18
January 2010 2:55:32 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org">phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Subject: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>PHM-Exch> PHM and climate change: a contribution
for discussion</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>[<i>The following note was written by David Legge as a
contribution for discussion within the People's Health Movement Climate Change
Circle. </i>]</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>There are a lot of organisations and networks working on global
warming. Many of us are members and activists in such networks. So what are the
special interests of PHM in relation to global warming and what special
leverage might PHM structures give to carbon pollution control?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>As I see it, PHM’s core business centres around the links
between global inequities with respect to the determinants of health and access
to quality health care; primary health care (both as a model for health care
delivery and as an approach to social change); community mobilisation; the
political economy of globalisation; and the possibilities for global solidarity
including the building of a global movement for progressive global change. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>The People’s Charter for Health (adopted at PHA1 in 2000)
provides some guidance with respect to PHM’s position on global warming. Under
the heading “Environmental Challenges” the Charter commits us to: </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Hold
transnational and national corporations, public institutions and the
military accountable for their destructive and hazardous activities that
impact on the environment and people's health. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Demand
that all development projects be evaluated against health and
environmental criteria and that caution and restraint be applied whenever
technologies or policies pose potential threats to health and the
environment (the precautionary principle). </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Demand
that governments rapidly commit themselves to reductions of greenhouse
gases from their own territories far stricter than those set out in the
international climate change agreement, without resorting to hazardous or
inappropriate technologies and practices. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Oppose
the shifting of hazardous industries and toxic and radioactive waste to
poorer countries and marginalised communities and encourage solutions that
minimise waste production. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Reduce
over</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>consumption and non</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>sustainable
lifestyles </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'> both in t</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>he
North and the South. Pressure wealthy industrialised countries to reduce
their consumption and pollution by 90 per cent. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Demand
measures to ensure occupational health and safety, including worker</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>centred
monitoring of working conditions. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Demand
measures to prevent accidents and injuries in the workplace, the community
and in homes. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Reject
patents on life and oppose bio</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>piracy of traditional and indigenous knowledge and
resources. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>Develop
people</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>centred, community</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:#000099'>‐</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>based
indicators of environmental and</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>
social progress, and to press for the development and adoption of regular
audits that measure environmental degradation and the health status of the
population. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>These commitments remain very relevant.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>Given the prevailing global inequities and in particular the
disease burden and barriers to health care in the Global South it is important
for PHM to consider carefully the North South dimensions of the Copenhagen
fiasco and to ensure that we approach the politics of global warming with full
understanding of these dimensions.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>As I understand it the rich countries approached Copenhagen with
low ambitions and high conditions; including conditions that tied rich country
action to comparable commitments from the big developing countries (ignoring
the role of rich country emissions in the historical accummulation of
greenhouse gases and looking for parity in policy action from hereon). As I
understand it the small island states and the delta countries wanted to see
action from all polluters but faced opposition from both the big rich and the
big developing countries. As I understand it the big developing countries (also
known as 'the emerging economies’), led by China and India, were unwilling to
accept the kind of restrictions on their economic development which were being
canvassed and were unwilling to slow down (what they describe as) the
liberation of millions of desparately poor people from poverty. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#000099'>Clearly the question of pathways to economic development links
with the question of access to the necessary technologies which might support
non-greenhouse economic development / poverty escape and clearly the developing
countries were not happy with the offers from the rich countries on this front.</span></span><span
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<span class=apple-style-span>It is not possible to make sense of this impasse
without recognising the role of the big transnational energy corporations
(funding the global warming deniers and opposing restrictions on CO2
emissions). The big energy TNCs will oppose action on global warming to the
bitter end. They have huge sunk investments in old technologies with
correspondingly large profit flows. Action on global warming will require
writing off these investments and choking off the profit flows and finding
capital for the new energy infrastructure.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>It is also necessary to contextualise both global warming and
economic development within the wider regime of global economic governance. The
inequities, imbalances and instabilities of the global economy, manifest in the
global food crisis and the global financial crisis, are a consequence of this
regime also. Neoliberal globalisation is built upon consumerism (with
concomitant carbon pollution) and requires the marginalisation of a billion
humans who are treated by this regime as ‘surplus to requirements’ (required
neither for their labour power nor their buying power).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#000099'>It is untenable that these global policy challenges should be
allowed to resolve into a forced choice between economic development for the
global South <b>or</b> mitigation of global warming (which seems to have been
one of the deals on the table at Copenhagen). Rather we need to work towards a
regime of global economic governance which reconciles the need for
(sustainable) economic development in the global South and the need to contain
global CO2 levels to 350ppm. Clearly such a regime is technically and
economically possible; the main challenge is political.</span></span><span
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<span class=apple-style-span>So what are the core interests of the People's
Health Movement in the politics of global warming? And where does the struggle
for action on global warming intersect with the struggle for health?</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span>First, we need to get our facts straight and build
a robust analysis. The analysis I have set out above includes some speculation
and over-simplifies some of the issues. We need to listen more carefully to the
analysis of the developing country negotiators at Copenhagen, in particular,
the negotiators from China and India to understand their perspectives. We need
to investigate the positions being advanced by the rich countries and explore the
implications of these positions. We need to contextualise these negotiations
within the wider political economy of energy and of global economic governance.</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span>We need to keep sustainable economic development
at the forefront of our struggle. Not the high consumption low employment
globalised model being promoted by the neo-liberals but sustainable autonomous
development based in large degree on local production and supply.</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span>We need to build pressure on the governments of
the North and South to accelerate the reform of energy production and use
domestically while continuing to work for binding international agreements.</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span>We need to keep energy equity in the foreground as
well as energy efficiency and renewables. This has implications for most people
in the rich countries where the profligate use of carbon based energy is
embedded in culture, economy and infrastructure. It also has implications for
the elites and middle classes of the developing countries. Both energy equity
and global economic reform require a strengthening culture of global
solidarity.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>So what
are the implications of these policy priorities for PHM’s policy program.<br>
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Central to PHM’s policy program is comprehensive primary health care, first, as
a platform for improving access to decent health care and for action on the
social determinants of health; and second, as a strategy of social change, for
creating healthy communities. So we need to ensure that energy reform is
included in our discourse of the social determinants of health and community
mobilisation for health but clearly contextualised in relation to economic
globalisation and the challenge of global economic reform.<br>
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Central to PHM’s policy program is the development of global solidarity for
health; building communication channels and opportunities for collaboration
across various axes of difference (nation, race, gender, religion as well as
class) so that the forces for progressive global change can be more coherent
and effective. So we need to ensure that energy reform (including towards
energy equity as well as efficiency and renewables) is part of the discourse on
which such solidarity is built – and clearly contextualised in relation to
economic globalisation.<br>
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Central to PHM’s policy program is the idea of intersectoral collaboration and
in terms of PHM as a social movement this means working on our relationships
with other social movements working in other sectors, such as global warming /
environmental justice / energy reform. So we need to work towards creating and
organisational relationships with organisations in other sectors whose
perspective is congruent with ours.<br>
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PHM Global’s practical work program includes the Right to Health Campaign,
Global Health Watch, IPHU and the People’s Health Assembly scheduled for 2011
in South Africa. There are clear implications for all of these departments from
the above reflections. Particularly so for GHW, IPHU and PHA3 but also for
PHM's national and local circles and other thematic circles.<br>
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Perhaps one of the first priorities for PHM in this field might be to stoke a
conversation regarding these issues within the wider PHM community.</span><span
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