We’re honoured to see our Healthy NDC Scorecard quoted extensively on page 32 of the UNDESA and UNFCCC publication Synergy Solutions for a World in Crisis: Tackling Climate and SDG Action Together, launched on September 13, 2023

“The extraction and use of coal, oil and gas harm people’s health, are the primary driver of warming and are incompatible with a healthy climate future. That’s all the more reason that governments must prepare to deliver a commitment at Cop28 to phase out all fossil fuels, and a just transition to renewable energy for all.”

“Absolutely zero progress was made [at COP27] on a commitment to fully phase out fossil fuels, and without tackling the major root cause of the climate crisis, we cannot fully protect health,” said Jeni Miller, executive director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. “There wasn’t any progress made on that. They just repeated the same language as at COP 26.”

Here’s a roundup of some of the top media coverage achieved by the Global Climate and Health Alliance during COP27. 

The following news coverage resulted from our September 14, 2022 press release: International Health Organizations Call for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

“These palpable signs of the climate crisis and the resulting health emergency must serve to spur us towards transforming our food, energy, health, and transportation systems to make them fit for purpose”, said Jeni Miller, Global Climate and Health Alliance.

Miller said health professionals urged world leaders in Glasgow to meet the more ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris agreement: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “The science is clear that warming greater than that could be catastrophic for people’s health, and that every tenth of a degree averted matters,” she said.

Amit Singh from Students for Global Health and Dr Jeni Miller of Global Climate and Health Alliance spoke with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman from COP26, 12 November 2021, about how 46 million health workers from around the world are calling on world leaders to protect people’s health from heatwaves, air pollution, extreme weather events, and the need to keep global temperature rises below 1.5C.

From extreme heat to hunger, climate change is bringing growing health threats – but bringing together emissions cuts and adaptation efforts could help

Research has increasingly shown that warming is taking a deadly toll on human health. At the global climate summit in Glasgow, the issue has gained new prominence.

BBC World Service – Newsday. Dr Jeni Miller speaks to James Copnall about the need to put health at the heart of climate policy at COP26.

South Africa’s high score shows that high emitting countries can and must integrate health into their climate commitments,” said Jeni Miller, executive director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance

“We know that climate change is impacting people’s health, this is increasingly visible around the world. We also know that many solutions to address climate change offer tremendous health co-benefits,” said Dr Jeni Miller of Global Climate and Health Alliance, the organisation which drafted the letter. “The health community is really seeing that if we don’t step up and call for action on climate change, we’re failing the patients and the communities that we care for.”

Jeni Miller, executive director of the alliance, an international consortium of health professionals and organizations, said that recognizing the gaps in current climate change mitigation plans, and adapting them to respond to the real-time health effects of global warming, is essential to do now, so that governments will have time to adapt before this year’s rescheduled COP26 summit. 

Analysis by the Global Climate and Health Alliance ranked Australia equal last out of 66 countries for efforts to include human health concerns in their climate commitments.