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A call for urgent action to safeguard our planet and our health in line with the Helsinki declaration

Jaana Halonen
Marina Erhola
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Åke Bergman
Nils Billo
Richard Fuller
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Manolis Kogevinas
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
Riikka Paloniemi
Karl-Heinz Posch
Pekka Timonen
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Résumé

In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission launched a report introducing a novel approach called Planetary Health and proposed a concept, a strategy and a course of action. To discuss the concept of Planetary Health in the context of Europe, a conference entitled: "Europe That Protects: Safeguarding Our Planet, Safeguarding Our Health" was held in Helsinki in December 2019. The conference participants concluded with a need for action to support Planetary Health during the 2020s. The Helsinki Declaration emphasizes the urgency to act as scientific evidence shows that human activities are causing climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, overuse of natural resources and pollution. They threaten the health and safety of human kind. Global, regional, national, local and individual initiatives are called for and multidisciplinary and multisectorial actions and measures are needed. A framework for an action plan is suggested that can be modified for local needs. Accordingly, a shift from fragmented approaches to policy and practice towards systematic actions will promote human health and health of the planet. Systems thinking will feed into conserving nature and biodiversity, and into halting climate change. The Planetary Health paradigm ‒ the health of human civilization and the state of natural systems on which it depends ‒ must become the driver for all policies.
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Jaana Halonen, Marina Erhola, Eeva Furman, Tari Haahtela, Pekka Jousilahti, et al.. A call for urgent action to safeguard our planet and our health in line with the Helsinki declaration. Environmental Research, 2021, 193, pp.110600. ⟨10.1016/j.envres.2020.110600⟩. ⟨hal-03659191⟩

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