The climate crisis is a health crisis
We mobilise the global health community to accelerate climate action
We are doctors, nurses, clinicians, and therapists. We are health advocates, researchers, public health and policy experts.
We have come together because, wherever we are in the world, we are seeing how the climate crisis is impacting our patients, our communities, our public health and healthcare systems. Respiratory diseases are escalating; communicable diseases are spreading; humanitarian disaster are becoming more frequent.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and our communities and healthcare systems are starting to buckle.
But there is an answer: Climate solutions can be health solutions. That’s why we’re working together to hold decision makers accountable. To protect human health, we have to restore the planet.
We have a unique opportunity to improve health for all and to tackle global inequality, if we act fast.
Our network
Organisations
We are a network of 200+ health and development organisations
Million health workers
Number of health workers represented by our member & partner organisations
Countries
Our network spans every continent and 125+ countries
News and Events
World Health Assembly: Health Community Hails Adoption of Climate and Health Action Plan, But Slams Fossil Fuel Omissions
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today welcomed the adoption by the World Health Organization’s 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) of the Global Action Plan (GAP), which will take forward last year’s Resolution on Climate Change and Health, while criticising the removal of mention of fossil fuel subsidies from the text.
Second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: Why it is a pivotal moment
Governments, health leaders, and multilateral organisations will be gathering in Colombia for the Second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health. This is a critical moment for global coordination. Policymakers must act now to strengthen health systems and eliminate fossil fuels to save lives, improve health, and reduce healthcare costs.
Context Newsroom: How governments should cut air pollution – from a doctor – GCHA Board Member Yuri Carvajal
Clean air is a fundamental right, not a privilege. Yet as the World Health Organization’s second global conference on air pollution and health opens in Cartagena, Colombia, millions of people globally are breathing toxic air with devastating health consequences.
LATEST EVENT
87th World Health Assembly 2025: GCHA events
Join GCHA and their partners at a host of different events at the World Health Assembly, May 19 – 27, in Geneva.
Climate and Health Facts
The Climate and Us
Real stories of climate and health from around the world
The Climate and Us is a series of short branded films produced for the the Global Climate and Health Alliance by the BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. Divided into three Chapters, the series takes you on a cinematic journey across the world to explore the many ways in which a changing climate is impacting people’s health and wellbeing.
Member spotlight
Health and Environment Alliance
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is the leading European not-for-profit organisation addressing how the natural and built environments affect health in the European Union (EU) and beyond.
HEAL’s vision is a world in which today’s and future generations can benefit from a clean environment to enjoy long and healthy lives.
