Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. In the last decades, we made great progress on infant and maternal mortality reduction as well as in life expectancy increase. Still, there is much to be done. Achieving this objective requires bold action to have universal health coverage, reduce the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases and the number of deaths caused by substance abuse, road accidents, pollution, and pandemics.

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29 Sep 2023

Towards ICCM5

Organizations

Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

BRS

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Better Cotton Initiative

BCI

biovision

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Biovision Foundation

Biovision Foundation

CERN

Intergovernmental Organizations

European Organization for Nuclear Research

CERN

GEO Secretariat

Intergovernmental Organizations

Group on Earth Observations

GEO

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

International Organization for Standardization

ISO

Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Minamata Convention on Mercury

Minamata Convention on Mercury

Thematic Platforms

SDG Lab

SDG Lab

UNEP

Intergovernmental Organizations

UNEP Chemicals and Health Branch

UNEP Chemicals and Health Branch

UNICEF

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Children’s Fund

UNICEF

UNDP

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Development Programme Office in Geneva

UNDP Geneva

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNECE

UNITAR

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Institute for Training and Research

UNITAR

UNOG

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Office at Geneva

UNOG

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Health Organization

WHO

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Meteorological Organization

WMO

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Trade Organization

WTO

Experts

Amitabha Sarkar

Amitabha Sarkar is a Swiss Government Excellence Fellow at the Global Health Centre in the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva

Andrés del Castillo

Andrés del Castillo is the Senior Attorney for the Environmental Health Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

Jacqueline Alvarez

Jacqueline Alvarez is the Chief of the UNEP Chemicals and Health Branch.

Noelia Garcia Nebra

Noelia Garcia Nebra is Head of sustainability at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Otto Simonett

Otto Simonett is the Director of Zoï Environment Network.

Sandra Avérous-Monnery

Sandra Avérous-Monnery is Acting head of the Knowledge and Risk unit, in the Chemicals and Health Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme.

Events

Body Meeting

Global Round table on GMOs

11 – 12 Dec 2023

Palais des Nations | Room V

UNECE

Learning

Online Course

Planetary Health

02 – 13 Oct 2023

Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies

Publications