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The Health Community at COP28 – Where Do We Go to From Here?
Following December’s UN climate negotiations in Dubai, 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.
Event: Accelerating a just transition for healthy people and a healthy planet
How can health and climate action be incorporated into a just transition in practical and policy terms? Expert panellists present different solutions at COP28.
A Turning Point for Health and Climate: Reflections from Climate Week in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) highlighted that health and well-being are essential pillars of the climate agenda.
Countdown to COP28
The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, or COP28, will convene from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). For the first time in the history of the global climate negotiations, health is officially on the agenda and health ministers are...
Health at COP28: Key information
Where and when? COP28 will take place between Thursday 30 Nov 2023 – Tuesday, 12 Dec 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The formal negotiations will take place in The Blue Zone, a site managed by the UNFCCC, and open to accredited party and observer delegates...
Why COP28 – the Health COP – Must Drive More Ambitious Climate Action to Protect People’s Health
This year, 2023, is a major year for climate and health. The health movement on climate change has grown dramatically over the past few years, as the health impacts of the climate crisis make themselves increasingly and dramatically felt in every corner of the globe;...
For Health’s Sake: Stop Financing Fossil Fuels
At the end of this week, global health community representatives, policy makers, climate experts, economists and civil society will be meeting at COP27 (GCHA page on COP27) in Egypt. This year’s location could not be more emblematic for the United Nations climate...
Why we need a global Treaty to phase out fossil fuels and protect lives
More than 1000 health professionals and nearly 200 health organizations from around the world – including the World Health Organization – are calling upon governmentsto lay out a legally binding global plan to phase out fossil fuel use, in order to protect the health...
Interview: Health and Climate Change in the Proposal for a New Chilean Constitution
In the midst of the health and climate crises, Chile embarked on the journey to a new constitution. The will for a new social contract, to respond to social demands such as health and education, also had an important environmental impulse, manifested decisively in the...