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Health NGO Reacts to Signing of COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health by over 120 countries
“For COP28 to go down in history as the first ‘Health COP’, it will be necessary for governments to sustain this focus on health throughout the negotiations, and to take real action to protect people’s health – including the phase-out of fossil fuels, additional finance to address the impacts of climate change, and making health a fundamental measure of our progress and success on climate action.”
COP28 World Climate Action Summit: Health Worker Video Message Challenges World Leaders to “Make COP28 Count”
At the World Climate Action Summit at COP28, world leaders were called upon to “make COP28 count” during the screening of a provocative video featuring testimonies and rallying calls from 25 health workers from around the world, who have borne witness to climate-related health impacts on their patients.
Health Professionals Urge Health Ministers Stand Up for Health During COP28
As health ministers gather in Dubai for COP28, the Global Climate and Health Alliance – which represents 160 health organisations – today urged them to join the health community in demanding that the health and wellbeing of people around the world is established as a central focus and benchmark for progress during the annual climate negotiations.
Global Health and Medical Community Unite To Demand End Fossil Fuel Dependency at COP28
A letter published today on behalf of the international health and medical community, addressed to COP 28 President-Designate Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber …
The Climate and Us: Major New Streaming Series Tackles Health Impacts and Solutions
The Climate and Us – produced for the Global Climate and Health Alliance by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions – BBC Studios’ commercial content studio- investigates how the climate crisis is affecting human health. The series tells the story of how people working at the nexus of climate and health, and beyond, are working on solutions.
Air Pollution Study Finds G20 Countries Fall Short on Integrating Air Quality into Climate Plans
New scorecard shows how the world’s biggest carbon-emitting economies are failing their citizens by not integrating air quality into national climate plans, while countries suffering the worst impacts of air pollution are taking the most action
NYC Climate Week: Health Professionals Demand Fossil Fuel Phase Out Ahead UN Climate Ambition Summit
Health professionals from around the world are calling on governments to commit to an accelerated, just and equitable phase-out of fossil fuels as a decisive path to health for all ahead of this week’s Climate Ambition Summit on September 20.
Slashing Global Methane Emissions Crucial to Human Health – Report
Making deep cuts to global methane emissions could deliver substantial health benefits while also limiting global warming to 1.5C or close to it, according to a series of reports published today by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA)
Health Organisations React to “Hottest Week Ever”
“There is no time to lose – the realisation that such unprecedented global heating is threatening the lives and livelihoods of people around the world should jerk governments out of their business-as-usual reveries – and the only sane way to respond to this climate crisis is by tackling the root cause – phasing out fossil fuels, and delivering a just transition to renewable energy for all.”
With COP28 on the Horizon, Wildfire Crisis Must Drive Action to Protect Health
“The time is now for governments to ensure COP28 must go much further than simply the idea of a ‘Health COP’ and takes the action needed to protect the lives of people worldwide by taking us out of the fossil fuel era.”
Healthy NDC Scorecard: As ‘Health COP’ Approaches, Analysis Shows Big Emitting Nations Doing Too Little to Protect Health from Climate Change
Low- and middle income countries lead the way when it comes to inclusion of health goals in their climate commitments, while more wealthy, industrialised nations – responsible for the majority of historical global greenhouse gas emissions – lack long term vision, according to analysis published today by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.
IPCC Synthesis Report Reaction: Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Imperative to Human Health
In response to today’s publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report (SYR), a global coalition of health professionals is calling on governments to fund loss and damage response, invest in and strengthen adaptation, and to slash greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out the use of fossil fuels.
Health Professionals Welcome COP28 Health Day But Emphasize Health Focus Must Go Further
“Declaring an official health day at COP28 is welcome proof of the growing political realization that the climate crisis is also a health crisis. However, protection of human health from the impacts of climate warming must also be embedded in the substance of the negotiations themselves this December,”
Health Orgs Welcome COP27 Loss and Damage Finance But Slam Fossil Fuel Stasis
As the COP27 Climate Summit ground to a close today in Egypt, health professionals and NGOs welcomed the inclusion of a Loss and Damage fund in the meeting’s final text, but slammed the stalled progress on fossil fuel phase-out.
Health Orgs: COP27 Governments Must Stay at Table To Reach Robust Loss and Damage Agreement
“With people’s lives and humanity’s future at stake, governments at COP27 have a moral duty to stay at the table until they reach a robust agreement on establishment of loss and damage finance, that answers the needs of people around the world already being impacted by climate change”.