Petra Hongell

Good news for our younger children and adolescents and their life online - kudos to @eu2025dk.bsky.social!

The #JutlandDeclaration calls for stronger online protections for minors, and advocates for #EU-wide legal requirements for effective and privacy-preserving age verification on social media.

🚨 Earth’s climate and nature are already passing tipping points as global warming approaches 1.5°C

✅ But this report identifies how positive tipping points can drive decarbonisation at scale

💚To protect our health and that of the planet, we need decisive #ClimatAction now.
#GTPR2025 #TippingPoints

Mental Health of Nurses and Doctors survey in the European Union, Iceland and Norway

📢NEW REPORT📢 1 in 3 doctors and nurses report #depression and 1 in 10 experience passive suicidal thoughts.

Read the full #MeNDsurvey report on the #MentalHealth of doctors and nurses here👇

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@cibersam.bsky.social @efnnma.bsky.social @who.int
#WMHD

Photo shows a nurse and the title: The mental health of nurses and doctors (MeND) survey in the European Union, Iceland and Norway.

Today is World Mental Health Day!

#WHO/Europe has launched the largest ever survey of the mental health and well-being of doctors and nurses in the EU27, + Iceland & Norway.

🔴 Watch LIVE as we kick off at 09:00 CEST with the report launch and its key findings
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4nmCb3U

Speakers of the Pan European Commission on Climate and Health. Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Miriam Saage-Maaß, Rebecca Forner and Sophie Crump

We're on - join us!

🌍3ʳᵈ hearing of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health #PECCH 🌍

Meet today’s expert speakers!

🔗 For more information and to register: bit.ly/4nEsj5k

#ClimateAction #Health #EuroClimateHealthCommission #PECCH

@who.int

In the past hour, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as it entered Palestinian territory.

But at the press conference following today’s EUCO meeting, no one at the podium was willing to comment 👇

We're live at the summit: ow.ly/qBVY50X5hqu

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago.

Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

Book by Jane Goodall printed in 1972, with her autograph

Meeting #JaneGoodall back in 2017 was an unforgettable experience, and my mum's book from 1972 got her signature in it.

She wasn't impressed by its age and had little patience for small talk. She had a single focus: protecting this earth and its earthlings.

Thank you.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

I still feel @bsky.app is like breathing fresh air. 🌬

Thank you, people - and this community has (once again) been mentioned. Keep it up.
👇

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached A major new scientific review, “Planetary Health Check 2025”, shows that seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been exceeded. For the first time, this also includes the boundary for ocean acidif...

In case you missed it:
Humankind has now exceeded seven out of nine planetary boundaries.

Every breach will affect our health.

www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...

Concerned about the ongoing discussion on #paracetamol and #autism? Currently, no consistent association has been established.

Here's @who.int statement on the topic. 👇

💙We all want to protect our children. Any medicine should be used with caution during pregnancy.

www.who.int/news/item/24...

Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO - September 2025 We are at a critical juncture. While best estimates conclude that vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives in the past 50 years, the potential for their impact for future decades is increasingl...

Vaccines
⏱️save more than five lives every minute
💚protect against severe disease and disability
🏨reduce the burden on health systems
💰protect families from sinking into extreme poverty

Today's read 👇
www.who.int/news/item/22...

WMO Bulletin shows successful recovery of ozone layer, driven by science

What would have happened without the #MontrealProtocol?

🌍 Collapse of the ozone layer
🔆 2M cases of skin cancer each year by 2030
🌱 Disrupted ecosystems & food chains due to UV damage
🌡️ 0.5-1°C additional global warming by 2100
🌳 580BN tons less carbon stored

wmo.int/news/media-c...

UN inquiry finds top Israeli officials incited genocide in Gaza A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts.

"The U.N. report cites examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others who have reached the same conclusion."

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

In addition,
❗ at least 94% of all hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed
❗83% of Palestinians killed are civilians
❗at least 18,885 children are among the more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This".

#CeasefireNow

The UN has officially declared famine in #Gaza. This means three critical thresholds have been breached:

⚠️ extreme food deprivation
⚠️acute malnutrition and
⚠️starvation-related deaths.

Thank you @tomfletcherun.bsky.social for speaking up.

#CeasefireNow

Launch and first hearing of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health Climate change is affecting communities across the WHO European Region, with rising temperatures, extreme weather events and environmental degradation threatening health and well-being. To accelerate ...

#WHO is stepping up efforts to support countries for adaptive and climate-resilient health systems, and supporting communities better prepare for an increasingly warming 🌍.

Today, #WHO/Europe is launching the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health.

Join the launch here👉 bit.ly/4jOSJzI

How does the #ClimateCrisis affect our health?

🔥 Heatwaves
🦟 Rising disease threats
💧 Water & sanitation at risk
🧠 Mental health affected

Every single aspect of our lives is impacted by our changing climate.

Robb Butler, WHO/Europe's Special Envoy on Climate and Health, recaps 👇

@who.int

🔊Good news for the weekend! 🌍

"WRI Study Finds Climate Adaptation Investments Yield Massive Returns — Over $10 for Every $1 Spent"

The study analyzed 320 adaptation & resilience investments across 12 countries.

@worldresources.bsky.social
#Climate #Solutions #WED
www.wri.org/news/release...

Rising #plasticpollution is a significant threat to our planet and health, contaminating water supplies and the air we breathe.

As plastics break down, they enter the food chain: #microplastics have been detected in human arteries, lungs, brains, and breast milk.
This needs to change.

#WED #Health

WHO Director-General's High-Level Welcome at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly – 19 May 2025 We are here to serve not our own interests, but the eight billion people of our world. To leave a heritage for those who come after us, for our children and our grandchildren, and to work together for...

What can you get for US$ 2.1 billion?
☠️global #military expenditure for 8️⃣hours
☠️one stealth bomber
☠️1/4 of what the #tobacco industry spends on advertising and promotion every year.
OR
✔️WHO's budget for an entire year.

#WHO @drtedros.who.int 👇 #WHA78 full statement:

www.who.int/director-gen...

Child biking

🛑Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in the European Region, with more than 62 000 people killed and a further 892 000 people seriously injured each year.

🚴‍♀️WHO estimates 30% of these are pedestrians and cyclists.

#MakeCyclingSafe
#RoadSafety

More weapons = more war.

The math is easy.

#Health #HumanRights #Equity #Peace #Education
#Climate #UN #EU

UN secretary General Antonio Guterres at UN City in Copenhagen

"Today, the UN Charter, international law, humanitarian law, the territorial integrity of states, all these principles are being put into question. There is one thing I can assure you of: these principles are not for sale.”

- #UN SecGen Antonio Guterres,
@ #UNcity in Copenhagen

'We are breaking the bodies and minds of children of Gaza', says WHO Executive Director The minds and bodies of children in Gaza are being broken following two months of aid blockade and renewed strikes, the Executive Director of the World Health Organization Emergencies programmes said on Thursday.

"We are watching this unfold before our very eyes and we're not doing anything about it.

This must stop."

-WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan

#Gaza

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Multilateralism is still alive.

With this achievement, countries have made it very clear: cooperation across borders trumps nationalism in tackling future pandemics and threats to our health. 🎉

At its best, the UN Security Council has stood for vital idea: wars have rules.

Yet I've seen - Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and beyond- Member States debase this idea.

If you defend principles selectively, they are not humanitarian principles.

Finland's last active coal-fired power and heat plant shuts down Finland's last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production will shut down permanently on Tuesday, enabling Helsinki energy group Helen to cut its emissions and put an end to rising energy costs for its customers, its chief executive said.

In only 2 years, #Finland entirely phased out #coal - four years ahead of schedule - and #wind power has more than doubled since 2020.

@alexstubb.bsky.social @tem.fi

How? Find out 👇

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Suomen ylikulutuspäivä on sunnuntaina 6.4. – talousjärjestelmä kannustaa edelleen ympäristölle haitalliseen toimintaan Suomen asukasta kohden laskettu luonnonvarojen kulutus on kansainvälisessä vertailussa selvästi keskiarvoa korkeampaa. Ylikulutuksen lopettamista hankaloittavat taloudelliset kannustimet…

6 April.

That's how early in the year my native 🇫🇮 marks #EarthOvershootDay.

#Ylikulutus #Overconsumption
#Finland
#WWF

wwf.fi/uutiset/2025...

Many #vegan cheeses aren't great - still true. But I'll keep testing.

Just found this 🌟
- bravo, #Casheury from #Malmö! 🇸🇪