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.
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...
Countdown to COP28: Call to action to the health community
Over 40 governments are expected to be sending health decision makers to COP28 and the voice of the health community is starting to reverberate around the world. Join the call to action.
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.
Add your name to open letter to COP28 demanding full fossil fuel phase out
A letter published today on behalf of the international health and medical community, addressed to COP 28 President-Designate Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber …
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...
Video: Health Professionals Join NYC March to End Fossil Fuels
Dozens of doctors, nurses and other professionals working in the health sector joined tens of thousands of marchers outside the New York headquarters of the United Nations during The March to End Fossil Fuels
Health Policy Watch: What Would Make the Next UN Climate Conference (COP28) the First True “Health COP”?
What should world leaders do to make COP28 a true Health COP? It’s a welcome start to have a Health Day and an inter-ministerial meeting that brings health ministers to COP as part of their national delegations.
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...
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...