Call to phase-out coal

The World Congress on Public Health has called for the phasing-out of coal.

At the close of their international conference in Kolkata, as part of a broad “Call to Action for Public Health,” the world’s public health associations advocated “a rapid phase-out of coal” to limit further global warming and prevent illnesses and deaths associated with air pollution.

Convenor of Australia’s Climate and Health Alliance, Fiona Armstrong, who was at the conference in India, has alerted us to demand.

A story from the conference headed: “World’s public health leaders call for an end to coal” tells of this decision.

“The Call to Action,” the story says, “points to the “contribution of fossil fuels and coal in particular to climate change as well as to detrimental impacts on the health and wellbeing of local communities.”