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WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19 aligns with this resounding call to action from the world's health community

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📷: Greenpeace/Vivek M.

WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

1⃣ Protect and preserve the source of human health: Nature.

Overall plans for post-COVID-19 recovery, and specifically plans to reduce the risk of future epidemics, need to lessen our impact on our environment.

Healthy economies are a product of healthy human societies, which in turn rely on the natural environment - the original source of all clean air, water, and food bit.ly/HealthyRecovery

#HealthRecovery 📸: UNDP

WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

2⃣ Invest in essential services, from water and sanitation to clean energy in healthcare facilities.

Around the 🌎, billions of people lack access to the most basic services that are required to protect their health.

Health care facilities must be equipped with water and sanitation services, incl. the 🧼 and 💧 that constitutes the most basic intervention to cut the spread of #COVID19 and other infections bit.ly/HealthyRecovery

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WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

3⃣ Ensure a quick healthy energy transition.

More than 90% of people breathe outdoor air with pollution levels that exceed WHO air quality guideline values.

Two-thirds of this exposure to outdoor pollution results from the burning of the same fossil fuels that are driving climate change bit.ly/HealthyRecovery

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WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

4⃣ Promote healthy, sustainable food systems.

If the world were able to meet WHO’s dietary guidelines, this would save millions of lives, reduce disease risks, and bring major reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Diseases caused by either lack of access to food, or consumption of unhealthy, high calorie diets, are now the single largest cause of global ill health. #HealthyRecovery

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📸: Bioversity International/Krishnasis Ghosh

They also increase vulnerability to conditions such as obesity and diabetes which are among the largest risk factors for illness and death from #COVID19.

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WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

5⃣ Build healthy, liveable cities.
Public transport, walking and cycling brings major health benefits through reducing air pollution, road traffic injuries.

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Many of the largest and most dynamic cities in the world, such as Milan, Paris, London, have reacted to the #COVID19 crisis by pedestrianizing streets & massively expanding cycle lanes - enabling “physically distant” transport during the crisis. #HealthyRecovery

📸: USDA

WHO manifesto for a #HealthyRecovery from #COVID19

6⃣ Stop using taxpayers’ money to fund pollution.

It‘s time to stop paying the pollution bill, both through our pockets and our lungs.

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Recovering from #COVID19 will involve some major financial reforms:
a good place to start is with fossil fuel subsidies bit.ly/HealthyRecovery

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📸: United Nations @UN

If we add in the cost of damage to health & the environment, the real value of the fossil fuel subsidy increases to over USD5 trillion per year - more than all govts around the 🌎 spend on health care.

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WHO prescription for a healthy & green #COVID19 recovery:
🌱Protect nature
🚰Invest in essential services
💡Ensure a quick healthy energy transition
🥦Promote healthy, sustainable food systems
🏙Build healthy, liveable cities
❌Stop using taxpayers’ 💸 to fund pollution