The Healthy Energy Initiative advocates for a cooler, healthier future

By Shanna Edberg
December 17, 2015

The Healthy Energy Initiative is a network of health organizations, professionals, and researchers around the world that advocate for a move away from fossil fuels, particularly coal, and toward clean energy due to the positive health effects of combating air pollution and climate change. In their words, “the global public health community has a unique opportunity to serve as an interlocutor between the scientific evidence on the harmful effects of fossil fuel-based energy generation and the health benefits of policies that mitigate air pollution by transitioning to clean, renewable energy.”

This post is part of a series on organizations and leaders who engage in ​multisolving, or climate-smart policies that simultaneously work to mitigate climate change while providing co-benefits such as the ones described above.