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Governments Gathering in Santa Marta Climate Gathering Must Understand: Our Health is Our Wealth
Dr Jeni Miller outline how phasing out fossil fuels could be one of the most powerful public health interventions of our time, and the concrete and specific steps that the governments gathering at Santa Marta can take to make this so.
Hurricane Melissa’s lasting impact on Jamaica’s healthcare system — and why the Caribbean needs climate-resilient healthcare now
Hurricane Melissa’s lasting impact on Jamaica’s healthcare system — and why the Caribbean needs climate-resilient healthcare now.
Disinformation, Climate Action, and Health: Why This Feels Like Tobacco All Over Again
Disinformation has become one of the most powerful and dangerous forces shaping climate action today. For the health community, this moment feels uncomfortably familiar.
Confronting Big-Oil with comedy: The backstory of “The Well-Oiled Plan”
Confronting Big-Oil with comedy – The backstory of “The Well-Oiled Plan”.
Latin America Speaks as One: Health Takes Centre Stage at COP30
Photo by Luna Andrade Arango More than 100 leading health organisations across Latin America and the Caribbean have united behind a common position for COP30, calling for climate action grounded in justice, equity, and wellbeing. By Fransisco Chesini - Iberoamerican...
Disinformation is costing lives and the health community is fighting back ahead of COP30
“We must fight the coordinated disinformation campaigns impeding global progress on climate change.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General By Shweta Narayan For the first time, ‘information integrity’ is on the official COP agenda, a priority championed by the UN...
Context: At COP30, we must act to stop fossil fuels destroying our health
When delegates leave Belém, success will not be measured by the number of pages in the final declaration or the pledges made, but by the courage to act on what we already know: that fossil fuels are destroying health from cradle to grave. Anything less would be a betrayal of both science and humanity
Why Health Leaders Are Cutting Ties with Fossil Fuel-Linked Ad Agencies
By Shweta Narayan It would be unthinkable for a respiratory society to partner with advertisers defending Big Tobacco. But this is exactly the contradiction that still exists when health organisations use agencies that greenwash fossil fuels. The health sector’s...
WHA78 and the Climate-Health Intersection: Progress, gaps and the way forward
Members of the GCHA share their insights from the 78th World Health Assembly 2025 – unpacking progress made, identifying ongoing gaps, and describing what’s needed to move this agenda forward....