Dear Stakeholders,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the joint webinar on “Environment and health in seaport cities”, which will be co-organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Union for the Mediterranean on Thursday, 17 June 2021, from 10:00 to 11:30 hrs (CEST). 

In this webinar, an overview of environmental and health aspects in seaport cities will be presented, and consequences of port-related air, soil, noise, and water pollution for health conditions of inhabitants of seaport cities will be discussed.

Participants will be reflecting upon how those conditions could be addressed from an urban perspective. The cases of the ports of Dunkirk (France), Haifa (Israel), Hamburg (Germany), Skikda (Algeria), and Southampton (United Kingdom) will be presented, in addition to a summary of good practices in various cities and ports.

The webinar is addressed to National Coordinators and Focal Points of UfM and WHO Member States for urban development, urban regeneration, and housing, environment and health, also to representatives of seaport cities and port authorities, public authorities dealing with urban projects at national, regional and local levels, universities, NGOs and other key stakeholders.

Participants are kindly requested to confirm their participation in the meeting by registering online, as soon as possible, at the following https://ufmsecretariat.org/form-environment-and-health-in-seaport-cities/.

Working languages will be English, French and Arabic.