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- Experts discuss climate change
Experts discuss climate change
Julieta G. Pelcastre
PANAMA CITY, Panama ( EFE) - Some 30 epidemiology and environmental health experts from 14 Latin American and European countries met in the Panamanian capital on 16 March for a conference on climate change and its effects on public health.
The goal of the conference, which is sponsored by the European Commission's EuroSocial programme, is to "identify critical factors that should form the core of public health policies in Latin America". The agenda included the challenges to environmental health from climate change, the experience of different countries with monitoring and evaluating such changes, and social participation in environmental justice.
According to La Estrella, experts used the event to take steps towards setting up an epidemiology and environmental health network through the EuroSocial health networks, allowing an active role for the countries directly involved.
Nadja Porcell, the general secretary of the Panamanian Health Ministry, told La Estrella that the conference was organised because of "the effects of climate change on global warming...".
She described the four-day conference as the best way of achieving the cohesion and integration that are essential to create conditions that favour sustainable development, equality, justice, and freedom.
EuroSocial is an EC technical cooperation initiative to help develop social cohesion in Latin America by enabling the exchange of experiences between the public authorities responsible for the administration of justice, education, employment, taxation, and health.
The initiative is centred on the exchange of knowledge and experience between Europe and Latin America so that the authorities in the regions can introduce innovative ways of implementing policies to foster social cohesion.
Source: http://infosurhoy.com
