CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE MINISTERS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT OF
THE MEMBER STATES OF THE WHO EUROPEAN REGION
SAVE THE DATE
Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
5–7 July 2023, Budapest, Hungary
Copenhagen, 18 November 2022
Excellency,
I am pleased to inform you that the Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 5 to 7 July 2023. The Conference will be generously hosted by
the Government of Hungary, under the patronage of the President of Hungary Madam Katalin Novák.
The Conference will bring together ministers, high-level officials and delegates from the
governments of the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region, as well as representatives of
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, academia, youth organizations and other key
stakeholders in the fields of environment and health.
Against the formidable challenge posed to our health by the triple environmental crisis related to
climate change, environmental pollution and biodiversity loss and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
the Conference will commit to accelerating the transformational changes that are necessary to protect health
in the WHO European Region. It will also provide an opportunity to showcase good practices and to find
effective ways for moving “from policy to action”, increasing resilience and “building forward better”, in
the pursuit of the environment- and health-related Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and of the European Programme of Work, 2020–2025 – “United Action for
Better Health in Europe”.
The political outcome of the Conference will be negotiated by the European Environment and
Health Task Force, where all the 53 countries of the Region are represented through their national focal
points. The next meeting of the Task Force will be held on 23–24 November 2022 in Bonn in a hybrid
format. We look forward to the active engagement of your country in the preparation for the Conference
and invite you to nominate a representative for the Task Force, if you have not yet done so. Please send the
nominations to
[email protected].
The invitation to the Conference along with the programme and all the relevant information will be
sent in due course.
I look forward to meeting you in Budapest.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge
WHO Regional Director for Europe
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Please see the attached correspondence sent from the World Health
Organization, Regional Office for Europe.
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