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Healthy NDC Scorecard: As ‘Health COP’ Approaches, Analysis Shows Big Emitting Nations Doing Too Little to Protect Health from Climate Change
Low- and middle income countries lead the way when it comes to inclusion of health goals in their climate commitments, while more wealthy, industrialised nations – responsible for the majority of historical global greenhouse gas emissions – lack long term vision, according to analysis published today by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.
IPCC Synthesis Report Reaction: Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Imperative to Human Health
In response to today’s publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report (SYR), a global coalition of health professionals is calling on governments to fund loss and damage response, invest in and strengthen adaptation, and to slash greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out the use of fossil fuels.
Health Professionals Welcome COP28 Health Day But Emphasize Health Focus Must Go Further
“Declaring an official health day at COP28 is welcome proof of the growing political realization that the climate crisis is also a health crisis. However, protection of human health from the impacts of climate warming must also be embedded in the substance of the negotiations themselves this December,”
Health Orgs Welcome COP27 Loss and Damage Finance But Slam Fossil Fuel Stasis
As the COP27 Climate Summit ground to a close today in Egypt, health professionals and NGOs welcomed the inclusion of a Loss and Damage fund in the meeting’s final text, but slammed the stalled progress on fossil fuel phase-out.
Health Orgs: COP27 Governments Must Stay at Table To Reach Robust Loss and Damage Agreement
“With people’s lives and humanity’s future at stake, governments at COP27 have a moral duty to stay at the table until they reach a robust agreement on establishment of loss and damage finance, that answers the needs of people around the world already being impacted by climate change”.
Health Organizations: As Hours Tick By, Still Time to Achieve Loss and Damage Agreement
“As the hours tick by, there is still time for wealthy nations at COP27 to agree to the long-overdue Loss and Damage finance – indeed, without agreement, all other aspects of the negotiations may crumble”
COP27: Urgent Need to Measure Health in Climate Progress Plans Say Health Orgs
“During COP27 and in the months to come, negotiators must integrate health metrics into the Global Stocktake and the Global Goal on Adaptation as a fundamental component for assessing global progress on how the Paris Agreement is being delivered”
COP27: Health Organizations Issue Stern Demand for Loss and Damage Fund
“A two-year delay to assess whether or not to create a dedicated Loss and Damage fund would be utterly unacceptable, given the urgency of the climate crisis, and the delays that lower income countries have already had to endure in receiving funds to combat climate impacts”.
COP27 Oil & Gas Proposal Earns Sharp Rebuke from Global Health Community
As the COP27 Climate Summit’s ‘Decarbonisation Day’ closes in Egypt, the Global Climate and Health Alliance denounced the fossil fuel industry’s push for greater oil and gas development, and reiterated the worldwide health community’s demand for a rapid and just phase out of all fossil fuels.
COP27 & Health: World Leaders Must Deliver Plans for Fossil fuel Phase-out and Climate Finance
As the COP27 Climate Summit opens this week in Egypt, the Global Climate and Health Alliance calls on governments to protect the health of people worldwide by developing a clear plan for delivering finance to lower income countries…
Lancet Countdown 2022: Fossil Fuels Incompatible with Healthy Future
“This year’s Lancet Countdown makes clear that fossil fuels are incompatible with a healthy future. To prevent catastrophic global warming and the ensuing devastation that will be wreaked upon people around the world, governments must commit to fully phasing out fossil fuels at COP27, while high income countries must provide developing countries with the necessary financial and technical support for providing equitable access to the clean energy their people need.”
Report: Healthy Fossil Fuel Free World Means Re-Imagining New Clean Energy Future
Governments can achieve a clean energy future for thriving healthy societies by effectively implementing a just energy transition, according to a briefing published by the Health and Climate Network.
International Health Organizations Call for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty To Protect Lives Of Current and Future Generations
More than 1000 health professionals and 200 health organizations from around the world have today called on governments to urgently develop and implement a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to end global dependence on fossil fuels, in order to protect the health of people around the world.
Health at Bonn Climate Conference: Unconscionable Failure of Developed Countries To Address Loss and Damage
As the Bonn Climate Change Conference closed this week, the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) described as “unconscionable” the failure by governments to progress towards financing for loss and damage – support to deal with the harms experienced by low income countries due to climate change impacts – and called on developed countries to ensure that the issue be put front and centre of COP27 negotiations.
Bonn Climate Meeting: Incumbent Upon Governments to Ensure Health and Prosperity for All
Ahead of next week’s Bonn Climate Change Conference, the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and partners are calling on world governments to set ambitious climate policies to ensure a planet that can provide for the health and prosperity for all, as November’s COP27 in Egypt approaches.