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As Bonn Climate Meeting Fails to Deliver, G7 Countries Must Protect Health and Lives by Slashing Emissions and Paying Up on Climate Finance
s the UN Climate Change Conference (SB60) comes to a a close in Bonn without significant progress, and the G7 kicks off in Italy, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called on developed countries to rapidly reduce emissions and to deliver on climate finance – such as the reallocation of fossil fuel subsidies to climate finance – in order to protect people from the worst impacts of climate change. Meanwhile, tens of people migrating from Sudan to Egypt have been killed by extreme heat in the past days, and hundreds in India since March.
Bonn Climate Meeting Must Continue Momentum to Protect Health from Climate Change
As the midyear UN Climate Change Conference opens today in Bonn, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on governments to focus on health and health equity, as a spur to motivate significant progress on how the commitments made during last year’s COP28 negotiations will be delivered.
World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Hail Adoption of Landmark Climate and Health Resolution
The Global Climate and Health Alliance today welcomed the adoption of a landmark resolution on Climate Change and Health by 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member states during the World Health Assembly (WHA 77, May 27-June 1), which underlines climate change as a major threat to global public health, and sets out a framework to promote health and build climate-resilient and sustainable health systems.
Urgent Climate Resolution Must Be Adopted at This Week’s WHO World Health Assembly
As the World Health Assembly (WHA 77, May 27-June 1) opens today in Geneva, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on World Health Organization (WHO) member states to adopt a proposed resolution on Climate Change and Health.
New England Journal of Medicine Commentary: Health Community Must Build on COP28 Climate Momentum
A new ‘perspective’ article published today in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) highlights the crucial role the health community must play in the worldwide response to climate change – both demanding action from policymakers and preparing health systems.
Health Organisations: COP28 “Signals” Alone From World Leaders Will Not Protect People’s Health
Health groups denounced the summit’s failure to commit to a full phase out of fossil fuels, a critically urgent step towards protecting people’s health, and criticized the failure to commit to strong targets for adaptation to build resilient systems capable of protecting vulnerable people.
COP28: ‘Abated’ Fossil Fuels Would Still Prove Devastating to Human Health
As the COP28 climate negotiations roll into their final days, the Global Climate and Health Alliance today warned negotiators that some of the pathways available in the current COP28 texts will prove detrimental to human health.
COP28: Wealthy Countries’ Hesitation on Adaptation Targets Poses Grave Risk to Human Health
“Including targets for health actions and outcomes in the Global Goal on Adaptation during COP28 would mean that low- and middle-income countries are best equipped to adapt to a changing climate, and lets us measure whether their health systems are ready to withstand the impacts they are facing.”
Health NGO Responds to Canada’s Emission Cap Announcement – “True measure of our progress is in lives saved”
Statement regarding the Emissions Cap announcement from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) delivered alongside Honourable Minister Steven Guilbeault during press scrum by Dr. Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician, Yellowknife, Vice-Chair, Global Climate and Health Alliance and a past president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the environment.
Health NGO Reacts to Signing of COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health by over 120 countries
“For COP28 to go down in history as the first ‘Health COP’, it will be necessary for governments to sustain this focus on health throughout the negotiations, and to take real action to protect people’s health – including the phase-out of fossil fuels, additional finance to address the impacts of climate change, and making health a fundamental measure of our progress and success on climate action.”
COP28 World Climate Action Summit: Health Worker Video Message Challenges World Leaders to “Make COP28 Count”
At the World Climate Action Summit at COP28, world leaders were called upon to “make COP28 count” during the screening of a provocative video featuring testimonies and rallying calls from 25 health workers from around the world, who have borne witness to climate-related health impacts on their patients.
Health Professionals Urge Health Ministers Stand Up for Health During COP28
As health ministers gather in Dubai for COP28, the Global Climate and Health Alliance – which represents 160 health organisations – today urged them to join the health community in demanding that the health and wellbeing of people around the world is established as a central focus and benchmark for progress during the annual climate negotiations.
Global Health and Medical Community Unite To Demand End Fossil Fuel Dependency at COP28
A letter published today on behalf of the international health and medical community, addressed to COP 28 President-Designate Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber …
The Climate and Us: Major New Streaming Series Tackles Health Impacts and Solutions
The Climate and Us – produced for the Global Climate and Health Alliance by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions – BBC Studios’ commercial content studio- investigates how the climate crisis is affecting human health. The series tells the story of how people working at the nexus of climate and health, and beyond, are working on solutions.
Air Pollution Study Finds G20 Countries Fall Short on Integrating Air Quality into Climate Plans
New scorecard shows how the world’s biggest carbon-emitting economies are failing their citizens by not integrating air quality into national climate plans, while countries suffering the worst impacts of air pollution are taking the most action