Health community policy recommendations for COP27
In the lead up to COP27, the health community has jointly developed policy recommendations on the themes of loss and damage, mitigation, adaptation and finance. The Paris Agreement acknowledges the relevance of the right to health to climate action. To date,...
Parliamentarians from global network write to newly elected Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, welcoming his climate proposals
Parliamentarians from over 30 countries have been signing a letter to the newly elected President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, welcoming his stated intentions to address the climate crisis, working for climate justice, and delivering a planned, gradual, and just...
Heat waves: a major health threat
HEAL, the Health and Environment Alliance, has gathered comprehensive data and resources demonstrating the impacts of heat waves on human health. Climate change leads to an increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves. In June and...
Health Community Submission to the UNFCCC Global Stocktake
Together with the World Health Organization and civil society and academic partners from around the world, the Global Climate and Health Alliance made a joint submission to the August 2022 call for inputs to the UNFCCC Global Stocktake. The Global Stocktake is a...
Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: GCHA welcomes the HCN
The Global Climate and Health Alliance is thrilled to be the new host for the Health and Climate Network (HCN) secretariat, and welcomes the HCN Director Alison Doig to the team. With funding from the Clean Air Fund, we look forward to working closely together, and...
GCHA and HCN Joint Submission to the Global Stocktake
In February 2022, the Global Climate and Health Alliance made a joint submission to the Global Stocktake. The UNFCCC Global Stocktake is a process to evaluate the progress made in implementing the Paris Agreement, and therefore by how much ambition should be increased...
#ClimatePrescription Video: Why World Leaders Must Take Climate Action to Protect our Health
This short two-minute mixed media film commissioned by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, and created by Wit and Wisdom includes testimonies and calls to action from 25 health workers from around the world, who have borne witness to climate-related health impacts on their patients. The video’s conclusions take the form of medical prescription as a direct call to world leaders to accept climate action as a cure to the climate crisis.
Chile’s newly published NDC aims for health protection through climate action, though must be made more than voluntary to be effective
In April 2020, Chile officially presented its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations (UN), updating its commitments on how it will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the mitigation of climate change, in line with the Paris Agreement...
COVID-19 Useful Links
We have compiled a non-exhaustive list of useful links to associations and organisations providing the latest information and guidelines about the coronavirus, causing an illness called Covid-19. The virus is spreading worldwide and it is important we all follow...
Statement to Davos summit on Australian bushfires, health, climate change
On Tuesday 14 January Melbourne’s air quality was the worst in the world, interrupting the Australian Open tennis championship. Some players were unable to continue playing because of the smoke from the recent bushfires in South East Australia, which killed at least...
Royal College of Physicians to end investment in fossil fuel and mining companies
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has announced that it will divest from fossil fuel and mining companies. The RCP will start divesting from the worst oil and gas companies immediately and will divest from all fossil fuel and mining companies, whose operations are...
Unmask My City: Healthy Air, Healthy Climate
A new initiative, Unmask My City, to address the intertwined threats to our health and our climate from air pollution.
Joint GCHA-NCD Alliance report published
We have just published a policy brief jointly with the NCD Alliance entitled ‘NCDs and Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action’ – click on the image or here to download the English version and here for the Spanish version.
German Health Organisations Call for Decisive Action on Climate Change
50 organisations and individuals from the German health sector including HEAL are urging the German government to take more decisive action to protect our health from climate change. The Call’s messages are based on recommendations of the Lancet Commission on Health...
2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change
The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost medical journals, today published its 2015 Commission on Health and Climate Change: “Policy Responses to Protect Public Health”, 6 years after the publication of its landmark 2009 Lancet Commission report.