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The GCHA blog features posts by GCHA members and our team and offers opinions and insights into recent climate and health related ongoings and discussions.

Young African student reviews his lessons on the wind turbine in Cameroon (iStock Media Lens King, 2023)
IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

In public health, we’ve known for years that our current food system isn’t healthy for people, and that there are ways to make it better. What the IPCC Lands report makes clear is that it’s also not healthy for our climate or the land on which we depend. Transforming how we approach food offers a win-win, for human health, for ecosystems, for a stable climate, but we must act now.

Coal, challenges and collaboration at COP24

Coal, challenges and collaboration at COP24

This guest blog by health professional Rashmi Venkatraman explores the implication for health and climate change through the lens of the recent COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland.