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Anthony Costello

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17 Oct

THOSE 4 COP 26 GOALS for our children's future.
1. Secure global net zero by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees within reach:
- accelerate the phase-out of coal
- curtail deforestation
- speed up the switch to electric vehicles
- encourage investment in renewables.

2. Adapt to protect communities and natural habitats. At COP26 we must:
- protect + restore ecosystems
- build defences, warning systems and resilient infrastructure and agriculture to avoid loss of homes, livelihoods and even lives

3. Mobilise finance
- Developed countries must make good on their Paris promise to mobilise at least $100bn in climate finance PER YEAR.
- International financial institutions must unleash the trillions in private and public sector finance required to secure global net zero.

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Anthony Costello

@globalhlthtwit

1 Oct

A new UNICEF report unicef.org/reports/fed-to… shows that worldwide, two out of every three children between the ages of 6 months to two years are not getting the nutritious diets they need to grow well. They propose ten actions: (1)

Food system
1. Increase the availability and affordability of nutritious foods – including fruits, vegetables, eggs, fish, meat and fortified foods – by incentivizing their production, distribution and retailing. (2)

2. Implement national standards and legislation to protect young children from unhealthy processed and ultra-processed foods and beverages and harmful marketing practices targeting children and families. (3)

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Anthony Costello

@globalhlthtwit

1 Oct

US senators attack Facebook and ask them to release their own research into how their products affect users after revelations about the harm some its platforms cause to vulnerable groups including children. (1)

The company knew that its social media sites were harming teens and didn’t do anything about it. It is time to turn off their ads and algorithms... Facebook claim we control the ads we see but we don't. They do. (2)

And Facebook cant change their algorithms. FT report one woman who had miscarried twins was constantly followed by ads about parenting +maternity. She typed in miscarriage repeatedly to get the algorithm to change but it didn't. She was still bombarded. (3)

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Anthony Costello

@globalhlthtwit

19 Aug

Lessons for Afghanistan (and Covid). In 1986 I visited Vietnam and met Dr Duang Quynh Hoa, paediatrician and former Minister of Health in the communist regime. She showed me a ward full of malnourished children and criticised her own government. (1)

I learned much abt the Vietnam war by reading the historian Stanley Karnow who concluded that the USA had lost the war before it began. They fought an ideological war, but lost to nationalists who simply wanted foreigners out. Many US supposed allies were VietCong spies.(2)

But Karnow reported the lessons gleaned from interviews with defeated US generals. How you need to know your enemies and allies. (3)

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Anthony Costello

@globalhlthtwit

6 Aug

The £20 benefit cut next month will reduce incomes of claimants less than 25years by 18% and >25 by 15%. Add in the effect of 2.5% inflation. Food bank use is up by one third in a year with one million parcels being given to children (1)

Destitution rates ("going without the essentials we all need to eat, stay warm and dry, and keep clean") have more than doubled since 2019 to 1 in 67 households...with rates as high as 1 in 17 HHs in the North West. (2)

We may expect to see 4-5 million people suffering periods of destitution this winter based on Joseph Rowntree figures from 2019, with unprecedented levels of hunger and food poverty. (3)

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Anthony Costello

@globalhlthtwit

6 Aug

Climate change dwarfs the pandemic threat. The influence of summits and conference of the parties (COPs) over the past 30 years shows no effect on carbon emissions. (1)

We are in deep trouble: increases in extreme weather events, floods, droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, food insecurity. And now scary signs of Gulf Stream collapse. (2) theguardian.com/us-news/2021/a…

Each year we publish the Lancet Countdown report describing 41 indicators which track the connections between public health and climate change. (3) lancetcountdown.org

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