Webinar: Ahead of G20 Finance Meeting, Health Community Calls for Healthy, Sustainable, Inclusive Public Investments
Ahead of this month’s G20 Finance Ministers meeting (July 18-19), WHO representatives, an economist with COVID19 recovery expertise and representatives from leading medical and health organizations from around the world will gather for a webinar on July 15th titled A Healthy Recovery: Charting the path forward.
Impact of Covid lockdown on Air Pollution Levels in Bengaluru
This analysis was completed by CREA, for the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GHCA). GCHA and HEAL support the Healthy Air Coalition Bengaluru, as part of a global health sector initiative advocating for clean air in cities in 2030. The Healthy Air Coalition has set up a network of 30 air quality monitors across the city to provide publicly accessible data to assess the health burden of air pollution in Bengaluru, and drive measures for improving air quality.
City air pollution dropped by 28% in Bengaluru during Covid-19 lockdown, new analysis reveals
The analysis of air quality data by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), collected by Bengaluru’s Healthy Air Coalition, shows that air pollution during the Covid-19 lockdown period, measured as PM2.5, was reduced by an average of 28% [1]. Additional analysis of satellite data confirms the downward trend in emissions during lockdown.
Chile’s newly published NDC aims for health protection through climate action, though must be made more than voluntary to be effective
Last month, Chile officially presented its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations (UN), updating its commitments on how it will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the mitigation of climate change, in line with the Paris Agreement of...
Over 40 million health professionals urge G20 leaders to put public health at the core of Covid-19 recovery
This letter is supported and promoted by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, Every Breath Matters, and the World Health Organization in service of the global medical and health community. Over 40 million doctors, nurses and other health professionals from 90...
The EU’s COVID-19 budget and recovery plans must ensure a safe and healthy future for all
(...) A healthy and safe COVID-19 recovery requires that countries fully commit to investing and rebuilding for a sustainable future, one that protects us and our children from health crises driven by climate change and other human pressures on our environment....
Covid-19 is a wake up call: no healthy future without green recovery
Berkeley, California - On the eve of Earth Day (22 April), many countries are preparing to resume activities after their Covid-19 peak. The decisions governments make now must prepare the way for a safer and healthier future for everyone and for the planet on which...
Global health community condemns moves to weaken environmental standards hiding behind Covid pandemic
Berkeley, California - The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) criticised the latest moves by governments in the US and Canada, to roll back key components of national environmental policies citing the COVID-19 pandemic and a need to stimulate the economy ....
COVID-19 crisis is a tipping point. Will we invest in planetary health, or oil and gas?
"When I first read about the possibility of a multibillion-dollar bailout of the oil and gas sector by the federal and Alberta governments, I was exhausted. I was exhausted from days of ER work, personal protective equipment drills, obsessive counting of ventilators...
COVID-19 Useful Links
We have compiled a non-exhaustive list of useful links to associations and organisations providing the latest information and guidelines about the coronavirus, causing an illness called Covid-19. The virus is spreading worldwide and it is important we all follow...
Statement to Davos summit on Australian bushfires, health, climate change
On Tuesday 14 January Melbourne’s air quality was the worst in the world, interrupting the Australian Open tennis championship. Some players were unable to continue playing because of the smoke from the recent bushfires in South East Australia, which killed at least...
Royal College of Physicians to end investment in fossil fuel and mining companies
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has announced that it will divest from fossil fuel and mining companies. The RCP will start divesting from the worst oil and gas companies immediately and will divest from all fossil fuel and mining companies, whose operations are...
COP25 hit stalemate over Paris deal implementation
Delegates from more than 190 countries are still talking at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid on how to include ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in a final document. Emissions have risen by 4 per cent since 2015, and cuts of more than 7% a year will be needed in the next decade to avoid dangerous temperatures rises.
Stalemate continues in UN climate talks
The two-week-long climate negotiations, named COP25, undergoing in this Spanish capital was scheduled to conclude on Friday. But negotiators have been unable to arrive unanimously on commitments that would see nations to make new pledges by the end of 2020 despite endless rounds of negotiations and back-channel diplomacy.
Health Groups: COP25 is a failure of leadership of historical proportions
Madrid - The United Nations negotiations on climate change (COP25) are due to close later today in Madrid, after two weeks of talks where countries -- the big emitters in particular -- failed to put us on a path to achieve 1.5 degrees, avert climate catastrophe and...