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Sep 13, 2013
In December 2012, the steering group members of the Global Climate and Health Alliance drafted the ‘Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing’. The Alliance is now seeking to expand the number of signatories to the Declaration in advance of the UN...
Sep 13, 2013
The first ever global Climate and Health Summit took place at the UNFCCC’s 17th Conference of the Parties in Durban, December 2011. The event represented the first formal meeting of the organisations that formed the Global Climate and Health Alliance and was...
Sep 13, 2013
At the UNFCCC’s 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) in December 2011 a group of health professionals from over 30 countries signed the Durban Declaration on Climate and Health which included five calls to action for natioinal delegations to the COP. The full...
May 1, 2013
An open letter to the WHO Director General In May 2013 a group of Alliance members wrote an open letter to Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, to highlight their concerns regarding the health impacts of climate change and to bring the...
Dec 4, 2011
At the UNFCCC’s 17th Conference of the Parties in December 2011 Alliance members sent out a global call to action to colleagues in public health organisations, health professional associations, hospitals, health systems and ministries of health. The full call to...