<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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co-benefits of climate change mitigation- Housing sector<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">World Health
Organization 2011<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“……Evaluation of
the health impacts of climate mitigation strategies is critical to informed
decisions that will attain the greatest combined gain for health, well-being
and sustainable development.</span></font></p>
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This report considers the scientific evidence regarding possible health gains
and, where relevant, health risks of climate change mitigation measures in the
residential housing sector. The report is one in a Health in the Green Economy
series led by WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. Other
reports in the series focus on transport, household energy in developing
countries, agriculture and health care facilities.</span></font></p>
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The report documents how certain mitigation options can yield substantial
co-benefits to health. Some choices, however, may be better than others in
terms of health impacts, or reducing health risks. New and sometimes overlooked
opportunities are also examined where health gains and sustainability
objectives can be mutually reinforcing.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">These findings have a two-fold
relevance.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">For the health community, they
represent a major opportunity to promote “primary prevention” by
informing policy-makers and the public about how better health can be obtained
from economic investments in housing.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Also, evaluation of health impacts
touches to the core of a debate that has stalled climate change negotiations
– the debate about who ‘gains’ – and who might
‘lose’. Looking at health co-benefits creates a different paradigm
– one that is ‘win-win’ for most people, and for the planet.</span></font></p>
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In fact, there is good evidence that many climate mitigation strategies can
yield both immediate and more sustained global public health benefits –
in rich and poor societies, temperate or tropical, urban and rural.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Often these health benefits can be
derived at comparatively low cost – and at almost no cost to resource-strapped
health services – but rather through more careful, strategic, and
health-focused development investments….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">Executive summary </span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">Introduction <br>
1 Overview of housing and climate /environment linkages </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1.1 How housing contributes to climate change </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1.2 Trends in developed versus developing countries </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1.3 Housing density and urban design as factors in GHG emissions </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1.4 Slums and their environmental/climate change impacts </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1.5 Regional climate-related impacts on housing environments </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">2 Review of housing and health risks </span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">2.1 A framework for understanding health risks in housing </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">2.2 Environmental health risks </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">2.3 Diseases and injuries </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">3 Evaluating health co -benefits and risks of
IPCC-reviewed mitigation strategies </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.1 Methods of analysis </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.2 Scope of mitigation issues considered </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.3 Limitations of the analysis .</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.4 Thermal envelope </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.5 Heating systems . </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.6 Cooling loads </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.7 Whole-building heating, ventilation and air conditioning
systems (HVAC) and space/unit air conditioners </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.8 Passive and photovoltaic solar energy </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.9 Lighting and day lighting </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3.10 Household appliances and electronics . </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">4 Gap analysis : Optimizing health benefits and
correcting risks of mitigation strategies </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">4.1 Health co-benefits and risks of IPCC-reviewed mitigation
measures </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">4.2 Neglected co-benefit opportunities: healthy urban design <br>
4.3 Addressing housing and health inequities with mitigation strategies .</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">4.4 Occupational health – risks and exposures to
construction and building renovation workers </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">4.5 Behavioural change: factors that promote or confound
strategies </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">5 Tools to assess , plan and finance healthy and
climate –friendly housing </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">6 Case studies of good practice </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">7 Conclusions and recommendations </span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">7.1 Largest health co-benefit opportunities . </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">7.3 Gaps in current mitigation analysis </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">7.4 Implementing win-win health, housing and climate change
strategies </span></font></p>
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