World Health Assembly: Health Community Hails Adoption of Climate and Health Action Plan, But Slams Fossil Fuel Omissions
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today welcomed the adoption by the World Health Organization’s 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) of the Global Action Plan (GAP), which will take forward last year’s Resolution on Climate Change and Health, while criticising the removal of mention of fossil fuel subsidies from the text.
30 Health Organizations Shun PR and Ad Agencies that Work for Fossil Fuel Industry
Thirty influential organisations representing the interests of over 12 million health professionals worldwide — including major global health voices and health professional associations at the international, national, and regional levels—have signed a commitment to no longer work with PR and ad agencies that also provide services to the fossil fuel industry.
World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Demand Urgent Action on Climate Commitments
Ahead of next week’s 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78), the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) is calling on all 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member states to urgently step up cross-sector cooperation on climate and health, and to implement last year’s resolution on Climate Change and Health.
Clean Air, Healthy Lives: New Roadmap Launched to Aid Governments Tackle Air Pollution Ahead of WHO Conference
Ahead of a WHO conference on the health impacts of air pollution, health professionals are calling for governments to urgently protect their populations from the deadly health impacts of polluted air and to ramp up investment in national health systems – and have provided a roadmap on how health ministries can achieve this.
Report: As Deadline Hits, Countries Must Seize Opportunity to Plug Health Gaps in National Climate Commitments
Watch the briefing on YouTube Global, 10 February 2025:- New research published today by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) demonstrates that while governments are giving greater priority to health when setting national climate policies, many have yet to...
COP29 Climate Finance Deals Leaves Millions of Lives On Line
“The USD$300 billion per year deal negotiated in Baku is weak, shortsighted and wholly inadequate to address the mounting threats of the climate crisis, and fails to protect the millions of lives on the line”, said Jess Beagley, Policy Lead at the Global Climate and Health Alliance, a consortium of more than 200 health professional and health civil society organisations from around the world.
COP29: Governments Must Commit Trillions in Climate Finance to Protect People’s Health
Ahead of the COP29 Climate Summit opening today in Azerbaijan, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on wealthy countries to protect people’s health by committing to provide climate finance in the order of a trillion dollars annually, in addition to global action with leadership from highest emitting countries to end of the fossil fuel era.
Climate Week: Clock Ticking for Governments to Make Strides on Health Ahead of COP29
As Climate Week takes place in New York, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called on governments to urgently raise their ambition ahead of November’s COP29 climate summit in Baku by taking transformative climate action sufficient to protect people’s health.
Clean Air Day: Governments Must Tackle Toxic Air Pollution, Slash Fossil Fuel Use and Commit to Clean Air Ahead of Key Health Conference
Professional health organisations from around the world today called on governments to protect people’s health by tackling the toxic air pollution impacting 99% of the world’s population, and to slash the use of fossil fuels that drive both air pollution and climate change.
As Bonn Climate Meeting Fails to Deliver, G7 Countries Must Protect Health and Lives by Slashing Emissions and Paying Up on Climate Finance
As the UN Climate Change Conference (SB60) comes to a a close in Bonn without significant progress, and the G7 kicks off in Italy, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called on developed countries to rapidly reduce emissions and to deliver on climate finance – such as the reallocation of fossil fuel subsidies to climate finance – in order to protect people from the worst impacts of climate change. Meanwhile, tens of people migrating from Sudan to Egypt have been killed by extreme heat in the past days, and hundreds in India since March.
Bonn Climate Meeting Must Continue Momentum to Protect Health from Climate Change
As the midyear UN Climate Change Conference opens today in Bonn, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on governments to focus on health and health equity, as a spur to motivate significant progress on how the commitments made during last year’s COP28 negotiations will be delivered.
World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Hail Adoption of Landmark Climate and Health Resolution
The Global Climate and Health Alliance today welcomed the adoption of a landmark resolution on Climate Change and Health by 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member states during the World Health Assembly (WHA 77, May 27-June 1), which underlines climate change as a major threat to global public health, and sets out a framework to promote health and build climate-resilient and sustainable health systems.
Urgent Climate Resolution Must Be Adopted at This Week’s WHO World Health Assembly
As the World Health Assembly (WHA 77, May 27-June 1) opens today in Geneva, the Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on World Health Organization (WHO) member states to adopt a proposed resolution on Climate Change and Health.
New England Journal of Medicine Commentary: Health Community Must Build on COP28 Climate Momentum
A new ‘perspective’ article published today in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) highlights the crucial role the health community must play in the worldwide response to climate change – both demanding action from policymakers and preparing health systems.
Health Organisations: COP28 “Signals” Alone From World Leaders Will Not Protect People’s Health
Health groups denounced the summit’s failure to commit to a full phase out of fossil fuels, a critically urgent step towards protecting people’s health, and criticized the failure to commit to strong targets for adaptation to build resilient systems capable of protecting vulnerable people.
COP28: ‘Abated’ Fossil Fuels Would Still Prove Devastating to Human Health
As the COP28 climate negotiations roll into their final days, the Global Climate and Health Alliance today warned negotiators that some of the pathways available in the current COP28 texts will prove detrimental to human health.
COP28: Wealthy Countries’ Hesitation on Adaptation Targets Poses Grave Risk to Human Health
“Including targets for health actions and outcomes in the Global Goal on Adaptation during COP28 would mean that low- and middle-income countries are best equipped to adapt to a changing climate, and lets us measure whether their health systems are ready to withstand the impacts they are facing.”
Health NGO Responds to Canada’s Emission Cap Announcement – “True measure of our progress is in lives saved”
Statement regarding the Emissions Cap announcement from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) delivered alongside Honourable Minister Steven Guilbeault during press scrum by Dr. Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician, Yellowknife, Vice-Chair, Global Climate and Health Alliance and a past president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the environment.