Nov 4, 2019
– by Nina Renshaw, Director of Policy and Advocacy at NCD Alliance (GCHA member) – We are less than a month away until countries meet in Madrid, Spain at the Climate Conference to decide on climate action to keep us at 1.5 C. Climate change was also the...
Nov 1, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – On 30 October, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced that Chile would be unable to host December’s UN climate negotiations, due to current civil unrest in the country. Members of leading health and development organizations from...
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...
