Priorities for a Healthy COP28

Priorities for a Healthy COP28

Health organisations from around the world set out their key priorities for COP28 that would ensure that climate action protects and restores human health and wellbeing.

Key GCHA Health events COP28

With health on the agenda of the climate negotiations for the first time, there are over 100 health events planned across the two week period of COP28. Here at GCHA we're so proud to share just some of the key events that our members and networks are coordinating to...

Health community policy recommendations for COP27

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,...

Heat waves: a major health threat

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

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

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

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

#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.

COVID-19 Useful Links

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...