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Sep 23, 2019
New York – The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) called on countries’ leaders meeting at the UN Climate Summit to strengthen their climate action commitments and to act on them, because they are essential to protecting the “right to health”, a core...
Sep 19, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – On September 23, the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres, will host a UN Climate Action Summit in New York. “Our overarching goal is to raise ambition and get the world on track to limit global temperature rise...
Sep 17, 2019
– by Rachel Thomson, Policy Fellow at World Obesity Federation (GCHA member) – The interconnections between climate and human health are now widely recognised: by scientists, by policymakers and by communities experiencing the effects of...
Sep 10, 2019
– by Frances MacGuire – A search for the Amazon on Google will throw up more than a dozen air pollution monitors for sale. This is surprising because, of all the thousands of words that have been written about the Amazon forest fires since mid-August, very...
Aug 9, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – In 2006 I worked on a major public health initiative to reduce obesity in California, called “Healthy Eating, Active Communities”. Obesity in the US is still at epidemic levels, affecting nearly 40% of US adults according to the Centers...
