Cork to host major summit on climate and health after invitation from World Health Organization

Meeting in Cork next year will bring together mayors from dozens of cities, political leaders, and public health professionals from across the WHO’s European region

At the National Healthy Cities and Counties Committee meeting held at Cork City Hall were Rebecca Loughry, director of services, community, culture and placemaking, Cork City Council; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, minister of state at the Department of Health; Lord Mayor Cllr Dan Boyle; Denise Cahill, healthy cities co-ordinator; Monica O'Mullane, UCC School of Public Health; and Cllr Tony Fitzgerald, political representative for Cork Healthy Cities. Picture: Jim Coughlan

Cork is to host a major ‘summit of mayors’ for the World Health Organization (WHO) next year with a focus on climate and health.

It follows an invitation from the WHO’s regional European office to the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Dan Boyle, and council chief executive Valerie O’Sullivan, which was accepted at the June meeting of the city council on Monday.