The Healthy Energy Initiative is mobilizing the health sector to play a central role advocating for a move away from fossil fuel-based power generation—particularly coal—and toward clean, renewable healthy energy options.The Initiative is led by Health Care Without Harm and is comprised of a network of partners made up of health professionals, health organizations, and academic research institutions, from around the world. The Healthy Energy Initiative is based on the growing scientific consensus that fossil fuel-based energy generation, particularly coal, has serious consequences for human health, locally and globally. We know that fossil fuel combustion is the greatest contributer to greenhouse gas emissions world wide, with coal being the most serious culprit. Fossil fuels are also a major contributor to air pollution, which kills more than 7 million people every year—double the toll from malaria, HIV-AIDs and tuberculosis combined.A transition to a low carbon economy increasingly based on clean...
