Dave Walsh, Author at The Global Climate and Health Alliance

Health Organisations: COP28 “Signals” Alone From World Leaders Will Not Protect People’s Health

Dec 13, 2023

Dubai, December 13, 2023: As COP28 closes today in Dubai, the health community commended agreements in the outcome text of COP28 that some countries noted as signaling the end of the fossil fuel era. However, health groups denounced the summit’s failure to commit to a...

Media Coverage of GCHA During COP28

Dec 11, 2023

Here’s a selection how the Global Climate and Health Alliance was quoted or mention in media during COP28 The Guardian: Cop28 live: talks expected to extend beyond official summit end after ‘insufficient’ draft text It is sometimes easy to forget that the words...

COP28: ‘Abated’ Fossil Fuels Would Still Prove Devastating to Human Health

Dec 10, 2023

Dubai, December 10, 2023: 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. While the...

COP28: Wealthy Countries’ Hesitation on Adaptation Targets Poses Grave Risk to Human Health

Dec 8, 2023

Dubai, December 8, 2023:- As COP28 climate negotiations head into week two, governments are finalising the details of a two year process to agree the direction of adaptation action. These discussions will define how and whether progress on adaptation is framed and...

Health NGO Responds to Canada’s Emission Cap Announcement – “True measure of our progress is in lives saved”