COP29 Climate Finance Deals Leaves Millions of Lives On Line

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. 

COP29: Health Community Slams Proposed Climate Finance Deal

COP29: Health Community Slams Proposed Climate Finance Deal

“If COP29 agrees on the text shown to us today, it would sign a death sentence for millions”, said Jess Beagley, Policy Lead at the Global Climate and Health Alliance. “Such a deal would be a bad deal not just for developing countries already under pressure from the climate crisis, but for the entire world.”

COP29: Governments Must Commit Trillions in Climate Finance to Protect People’s Health

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.

As Bonn Climate Meeting Fails to Deliver, G7 Countries Must Protect Health and Lives by Slashing Emissions and Paying Up on Climate Finance

As Bonn Climate Meeting Fails to Deliver, G7 Countries Must Protect Health and Lives by Slashing Emissions and Paying Up on Climate Finance

s 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.

World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Hail Adoption of Landmark Climate and Health Resolution

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.