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The Faculty of Public Health
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Position paper Fossil Fuels, the Fossil Fuel industry and Public Health: the case for ending extraction and exploration to protect public health - April 2024
By The Faculty of Public Health, UK (operating worldwide)
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In this position paper, the Faculty of Public Health sums up the health impacts of fossil fuels and their extraction. It draws lessons from other public health policy, like tobacco and 'commercial determinants of health'. Lastly, it calls for public health professionals to advocate for policies that (ao) "restrict the influence of the fossil fuel industry and related corporate interests at local/regional/national levels, initially through a ban on the advertising of high-carbon products and fossil fuels, as well as systematically addressing the industry’s influence on the determinants of health."
Internationally, they call public health professionals to (ao) "support international efforts to reduce the fossil fuel industry’s influence within international climate negotiations, using the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) as a precedent." And to sign up to the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty.