Energy is a Health issue:

Enabling the MDGs for health & women’s empowerment

Health and sustainable energy access in homes • health facilities • cities/communities

Rio+20 Side Event

19 June 2012 • 3:10-4 pm • Pavilion 3 (P-3) RioCentro

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·  Air pollution related illness (indoor& outdoor) is the largest global environmental health threat

·  Energy poverty is a barrier to health care access: 18-58% of health clinics surveyed in 5 African countries had NO electricity at all

·  A combined approach to energy and health can address many climate change related issues 

Key speakers:

Dr Margaret Chan – Director General, World Health Organization

Dr Kandeh Yumkella – Co-chair UN-Energy & Director General, UNIDO

Ms Lakshmi Puri – Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

Dr Laura Stachel – We Care Solar – power/light/communications for maternal health facilities

Leslie Cordes – Senior Director, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, UN Foundation

Moderator – Dr Maria Neira, Director, Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization