Showing posts with label Cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cities. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Making cities smoke-free

This publication is the result of a joint project between the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) and the WHO Centre for Health Development (Kobe Centre). It is intended as a technical resource to assist Member States implementing Article 8 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its guidelines in order to fully protect people from tobacco smoke.

More than 739 million people representing 11% of the world's population live in countries that have introduced comprehensive, national smoke-free laws, an increase of more than 385 million since 2008. An additional 210 million people (3% of the world’s population) are protected by comprehensive smoke-free legislation at the subnational level, an increase of almost 100 million since 2008. While national laws that protect all of a country’s residents from exposure are ideal, cities can often pass legislation sooner than countries. City leaders, as credible voices for their citizens, can also directly advocate for smoke-free laws at national level.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241502832_eng.pdf

Friday, 9 December 2011

Cities and Climate Change 2011

The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in dangerous ways that seriously threaten the world’s environmental, economic and social stability. Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 seeks to improve knowledge, among governments and all those interested in urban development and in climate change, on the contribution of cities to climate change, the impacts of climate change on cities, and how cities are mitigating and adapting to climate change. More importantly, the Report identifies promising mitigation and adaptation measures that are supportive of more sustainable and resilient urban development paths. http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/GRHS2011/GRHS.2011.Abridged.English.pdf