‘Triple whammy’ threatens UN action on climate change
Events threatens to hamper efforts to tackle climate change. Saudi Arabia objects to a key IPCC scientific report that urges drastic cuts in carbon emissions, EU fails to set net zero target, and…
The latest climate agreement negotiations: will the latest IPCC science be ignored?
Climate agreement negotiations are occurring today in Bonn, Germany. The Global Climate and Health Alliance are worried that the latest IPCC science will be ignored by some countries.
Sustainable Energy Week: A cross-cutting priority
By tackling air pollution and climate change together, Europe can safeguard the health of its citizens, says EU Committee of Regions rapporteur & President of Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano.
Schoolchildren’s activism is a lesson for health professionals
Dr. Robin Stott writes, With their relentless protests, Thunberg and other schoolchildren around the world have shown a commitment that other groups, including health professionals, have not managed.
Salon: The planet is the patient now: how doctors and nurses are the front-line solution to climate change
Drs. Kinari Webb and Courtney Howard, from GCHA member organizations Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Health in Harmony, call for a planetary health approach to heal humans and the planet.
WHO Conference on Climate Change and Health / Katowice (Poland) 2018
(German) The connection between climate change and health is increasingly the subject of international research. At COP24 in Katowice, the World Health Organization convened a conference on this subject. I attended as a member of the Board of Directors of the North Rhine family physicians’ association…
Youth climate strike: ‘a diagnosis being made en masse,’ says ER doc
GCHA board member Dr. Courtney Howard of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment writes, “The scale of the climate crisis and the threat to human life has just been made clear in the starkest possible terms by youthful truth-tellers. There is tremendous value in stating a diagnosis out loud.”
New campaign to ‘unmask’ Fresno, cut air pollution. ‘We are the canary in the coal mine.’
The push for better air quality in the San Joaquin Valley has a new team of advocates – doctors – who are taking a more active role in demanding clean air for the region.
Fierce Healthcare: Doctors add voices to fears climate change is posing health risks around the globe
In the wake of a new study released Wednesday that warned of escalating health risks from climate change, a major physician group is backing the call for action.
British Medical Journal: Global warming must stay below 1.5°C
Twelve years to act or we will face catastrophic climate change. This is the core message of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on 8 October.
CBC: Trans Mountain pipeline review must look at impact on global health emergency of climate change
After a summer that saw over 90 heat-related deaths in Quebec, drought-impacted crops across the Prairies, and large swaths of Western Canada and Ontario ravaged by wildfires and shrouded in smoke, many of the world’s leading experts gathered in San Francisco last month at the Global Climate and Health Forum to discuss the health implications of climate change.
Devex: What the climate community can learn from global health
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Skoll: Health care in the house at the Global Climate Action Summit – by Josh Karliner
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Devex: Global health community steps up climate action
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Forum Calls for Action on Climate Change to Protect Health
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.