Sep 19, 2014
Gina McCarthy, Boris Lushniak, Richard Horton to speak at Climate and Health Event on the Eve of the UN Climate Summit in New York Media Advisory New York, September 19, 2014 On Monday September 22nd, the eve of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in New York,...
Aug 29, 2014
Civil Society Call To Action WHO Health and Climate Conference, Geneva, August 29, 2014 We congratulate the World Health Organization on their vision and leadership in convening this week’s Health and Climate Summit, an historic event which has brought...
Aug 27, 2014
The International Federation of Medical Students (IFMSA), in partnership with the WHO, are calling on young people from around the world, to share their perspectives on climate change and health in an upcoming online consultation. This is taking place in advance of...
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...
