Paris Appeal 2nd international Congress (Download the pdf)

November 9, 2006

Environment and sustainable health: an international assessment

8h30-9h00  Welcoming of attendees

9h00–9h10 Opening address
Koïchiro MATSUURA,  Director-General of UNESCO

9h10-9h20 Why european doctors support the Paris Appeal
Daniel MART, President of the Standing Committee of European Doctors, Luxembourg

9h20–9h40 The concept of sustainable health and the Paris Appeal Memorandum
Dominique BELPOMME, President of ARTAC, France

9h40–10h00 General introduction
John PETERSON MYERS, Environmental Health Sciences, USA

10h00 CANCER AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES
Moderators : Louis-Jean CALLOC’H and Michael LERNER

10h00–10h20 Cancer as an environmental disease
Richard CLAPP, Boston University, School of Public Health, USA

10h20–10h40 Pesticides reduction and lymphoma:
the Swedish experience
Lennart HARDELL, Oncologist, Orebro Medical Center,  Sweden

10h40–10h50 Discussion with the audience

10h50–11h05 An alternative to waste incineration
Dany DIETMANN, Mayor of Manspach, France

11h05 – 11h20 Grass roots citizen demands and actions
Diana WARD, President of Breast Cancer, UK

11h20 – 11h35 A need for new medical speciality: environmental medicine. The Environmental Ambulances, the Luxembourg’s experience
Joseph WAMPACH, Ministry of Health, Luxembourg

11h35-12h00 Discussion with the audience

12h30–14h00 ORGANIC LUNCH

12H30 PRESS CONFERENCE
Launching of the Paris Appeal Memorandum, an international assessment

14h00 PROTECTING PREGNANCY AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Moderators : Charles SULTAN and Genon JENSEN*

14h00–14h20 The toxic effects of CMR molecules on foetus
Vyvyan HOWARD,  Toxicologist, Chairman of the International Society of
Doctors for Environment, Ulster University, UK

14h20–14h40 Why infertility is growing in Europe?
Henrik LEFFERS, Righospitalet, Copenhagen University, Denmark

14h40–15h00 Congenital malformations and pesticides
Charles SULTAN, Endocrinologist, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, France

15h00 – 15h10 Discussion with the audience

15h10 – 15h25 The French example: Citizens Action for the Alternatives to Pesticides (ACAP)
François VEILLERETTE,  Chairman of MDRGF, France

15h25 – 15h40 Substituting medical devices plastic phthalates to avoid congenital malformations and reprotoxicity
Andreas LISCHKA, Paediatrician, Austria

15h40-16h00 Discussion with the audience

16h00–16h20 BREAK

16H00 REACH, SUBSTITUTION PRINCIPLE, GREEN CHEMISTRY

Moderators : Denis CHEISSOUX** and James CLARK

16h20–16h40 The substitution principle and the green chemistry
James CLARK, Director of Green Chemistry Network, UK

16h40–16h55 Protecting health by using safer substitutes in
health care industry
Ted SCHETTLER, Health Care Without Harm, USA

16h55–17h05 Discussion with the audience

17h05 – 17h15 A preventive and curative politic: protecting
environment and health
Olivier TOMA, Director of Champeau private clinic, France

17h15 – 17h30 Putting substitution into a regulatory framework. Will the EU’s new chemical policy REACH substitute dangerous chemicals with safer
ones?
Yannick VICAIRE, In charge of Toxics campaign, Greenpeace, France

17h30-17h45 Some examples of marketed products derived from green chemistry
Alain GERMOND, Director-general of Purodor, France

17h45-18h00 Discussion with the audience

18h00-18h30 CONCLUSION
Otmar KLOÏBER, General Secretary of the World Medical Association
David GEE, Environment European Agency

** Journalist, France Inter, France