COP28 Negotiations. Photo: Milena Sergeeva
Here’s a selection how the Global Climate and Health Alliance was quoted or mention in media during COP28
It is sometimes easy to forget that the words over which delegates are fighting lead to real-life damages. Dr Jeni Miller, executive director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, said the most recent draft of the COP28 text would be “disastrous for people’s health” and represents a major step backwards at a time when we urgently need to be accelerating action.
“Small islands states have rightly called this text a death sentence,” she said. “The lack of any actual commitment to phase out fossil fuels leaves us on a trajectory to spiraling climate impacts on health that will exceed the limits of our health systems’ and communities’ abilities to adapt. And it will continue to expose people all over the world to the myriad health impacts of fossil fuel even beyond their role in climate change, such as the over 5 million deaths per year from air pollution alone.”
- British Medical Journal: “COP28 decision to “transition away” from fossil fuels is hailed as milestone but loopholes are decried (paywall)
- La Vanguardia: The dispute over the end of fossil energy lengthens in the final stretch of the summit
- Project Syndicate: “At Expo City in #Dubai, PS asked @GCHAlliance’s @JessicaBeagley whether #COP28 is delivering.“
- Euronews: Abated’ fossil fuels would still be devastating for human health, Global Climate and Health Alliance warns
- Nation Africa: CSOs, experts decry slow progress on Africa’s key demands at COP28
- Straits Times: Recipe for a habitable planet: Will COP28 negotiations get the world to where it needs to be?
- The Energy Mix: Negotiators ‘Getting Real About What Matters’ as COP28 Enters Final 48 Hours
- Truthout: Public Health Finally Gets a Platform at COP28, But Will Real Action Follow?
- Le Monde: COP28 : les énergies fossiles tuent 5 millions de personnes par an dans le monde
- Reuters Context: Cut fossil fuel use to save millions of lives, health experts say
- Devex: Donors commit more than $1B for climate-health at COP 28
- Devex: Fossil fuel phaseout omitted from COP 28 health declaration
- Nation Africa: COP28: Warming planet is making people sicker, experts warn
- Canada: Dubai climate talks focus on health as Canadian doctors warn patients already seeing impacts
- Reuters: COP28 focus on health draws $777 mln to fight tropical disease
- National Public Radio (NPR): Health is on the agenda at UN climate negotiations. Here’s why that’s a big deal
- News 18/CNN: Climate Change is a Health Crisis, Declare 123 Countries in a First at COP28
- Health Policy Watch: COP28: 123 Countries Commit to ‘Declaration on Climate and Health’
- Health Policy Watch: From Australia to Bangladesh and Beyond: Mobilizing Local Communities Is Key to Breaking Down Climate and Health Silos
- Euronews: Live. COP28: World leaders speak, nuclear power and methane on day three of the UN climate conference
- Down to Earth (India): WHO to promote finance, fossil fuel phase-out, and climate resilience of the health system at COP28
- BBC World Service; GCHA Policy Lead Jess Beagley interviewed on Newshour