Luisa Colasimone, Author at The Global Climate and Health Alliance

Climate change threatens to undo decades’ worth of global health gains – but the health community can help to stop this

Jul 5, 2019

Guest opinion from Diedre Duff of GCHA member organization MedAct. Climate change is already claiming thousands of lives every year and impacting the health of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change...

Attempts to hinder climate action stall progress at international political talks

Jun 28, 2019

Bonn, 28 June 2019 – To the dismay of health groups and over the objections of many delegations to this week’s climate talks in Bonn, negotiators failed to adopt the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on...

Health groups alarmed that countries may drop IPCC science in climate agreement

Jun 24, 2019

Bonn, 24 June 2019 – The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today decried the renewed opposition by Saudi Arabia to accepting the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5C (1), which warned that...

Climate change threatens to undo decades’ worth of global health gains – but the health community can help to stop this

Attempts to hinder climate action stall progress at international political talks

Health groups alarmed that countries may drop IPCC science in climate agreement

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