COP31: Climate and Health at the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference

Find out more about the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference and what it means for the climate and health movement.

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Find out more about the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 31) which will take place November 09-20 2026 in Antalya, Türkiye, and what it means for the climate and health movement.

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What is COP31?

COP (Conference of the Parties) is the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. This is the 31st Climate COP to take place- and is referred to as ‘COP31’. During COP governments from around the world discussed and agreed on policies and actions to tackle the climate crisis. It was during COP 21 in 2015 that the pivotal ‘Paris Agreement’ (international treaty on climate change) was agreed upon.

Participants from all sectors of society including industry, government, civil society, academia, and health will join the conference to advocate and push for climate action.

Useful resources

WHO webpage on health at COP31

Follow the webpage here for updates on WHO activities at COP31.

Climate Action and Health: Human Implications of UNFCCC Decisionmaking

This brief, co-produced with the Lancet Countdown, sets out the evidence for links between climate and health. It is intended to support Parties to follow up on health-related references in UNFCCC processes and other decisions when planning and implementing national climate actions and in the lead up to COP31. See here.

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Health

GCHA produces scorecards for policymakers to assess the extent to which governments’ NDCs recognise and respond to the abundant linkages with health and air quality. See here.

Learn about climate and health asks and outcomes at previous COPs

COP30 Delivers Incremental Climate Action, But Lack of Implementation Support Jeopardises Health

As the COP 30 climate summit closed today, the Global Climate and Health Alliance bemoaned governments’ failure to deliver a genuinely transformative COP. Read here.

COP30: Health Community Welcomes Mexico’s Landmark Climate Commitments

The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today welcomed Mexico’s publication of its climate commitments – its Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0 (NDC 3.0), and its signing of the Common Position of Latin America and the Caribbean on Climate Change and Health. Read more here.

COP30: Global Health Leaders Call for a Life-Saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

At COP30, physicians, nurses, and health and medical students representing millions of health workers worldwide issued an urgent call for countries to support a global commitment to Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF). More here.

COP30 State of Play: People’s Health Hangs in the Balance, as Key COP Priorities Still Under Debate

“With a number of vital issues still in play at COP30, the health community is calling on governments at the Amazon’s COP to deliver on the meeting’s avowed objective”, saidDr Jeni Miller, Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Read more.

COP30: Adaptation finance crucial to strengthen health in the face of life-threatening climate conditions

On Health Day at COP30, Regions4, the Global Climate & Health Alliance and CarbonCopy hosted a press conference, focused on “Positioning Health at the Centre of Adaptation Finance.” See more.

COP30: Global March for Health & Climate, Belém November 11

Doctors, nurses, therapists, students, and representatives of indigenous peoples, women’s and youth organizations will take to the streets of Belém (PA) on November 11th to defend an increasingly urgent issue: health is directly affected by the climate crisis. Read more.

Will COP30 Be the Turning Point We Need? Health Community Calls on Delegates to Make Lives and Health Central to Climate Talks

Ahead of the COP 30 climate summit, the health community is calling on all governments to honor responsibilities to support adaptation and climate action in developing countries, and to lead the transition away from fossil fuels. More here.

COP29 Climate Finance Deals Leaves Millions of Lives On Line

As UN member states launched a barrage of objections to the gavelling through of the climate finance deal – the, New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), the Global Climate and Health Alliance reacted here.

COP29: Governments Must Commit Trillions in Climate Finance to Protect People’s Health

Ahead of the COP29 Climate Summit opening today in Azerbaijan, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on wealthy countries to protect people’s health by committing to provide climate finance in the order of a trillion dollars annually, in addition to global action with leadership from highest emitting countries to end of the fossil fuel era. Read more.

The Health Community at COP28 – Where Do We Go to From Here?

Following the UN climate negotiations in Dubai in 2023, Global Climate and Health Alliance Executive Director Dr Jeni Miller reflects on the climate summit’s outcomes, and the action needed next to protect people’s health from the climate crisis. Read here

Health Organisations: COP28 “Signals” Alone From World Leaders Will Not Protect People’s Health

As COP28 closed in Dubai, the health community commended agreements in the outcome text of COP28 that some countries noted as signaling the end of the fossil fuel era. Read here.