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Global Climate and Health Alliance Statement on Health Implications of Wildfire Pollution
“It is clear that the US wildfires are one of the new faces of the climate crisis. Emergency services are doing an amazing job battling the fires, but the toxic air pollution generated by the fires is also a health hazard, and a problem which must not be ignored.”
Webinar: Ahead of G20 Finance Meeting, Health Community Calls for Healthy, Sustainable, Inclusive Public Investments
Ahead of this month’s G20 Finance Ministers meeting (July 18-19), WHO representatives, an economist with COVID19 recovery expertise and representatives from leading medical and health organizations from around the world will gather for a webinar on July 15th titled A Healthy Recovery: Charting the path forward.
City air pollution dropped by 28% in Bengaluru during Covid-19 lockdown, new analysis reveals
The analysis of air quality data by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), collected by Bengaluru’s Healthy Air Coalition, shows that air pollution during the Covid-19 lockdown period, measured as PM2.5, was reduced by an average of 28% [1]. Additional analysis of satellite data confirms the downward trend in emissions during lockdown.
Over 40 million health professionals urge G20 leaders to put public health at the core of Covid-19 recovery
This letter is supported and promoted by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, Every Breath Matters, and the World Health Organization in service of the global medical and health community. Over 40 million doctors, nurses and other health professionals from 90...
Covid-19 is a wake up call: no healthy future without green recovery
Berkeley, California - On the eve of Earth Day (22 April), many countries are preparing to resume activities after their Covid-19 peak. The decisions governments make now must prepare the way for a safer and healthier future for everyone and for the planet on which...
Global health community condemns moves to weaken environmental standards hiding behind Covid pandemic
Berkeley, California - The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) criticised the latest moves by governments in the US and Canada, to roll back key components of national environmental policies citing the COVID-19 pandemic and a need to stimulate the economy ....
Health Groups: COP25 is a failure of leadership of historical proportions
Madrid - The United Nations negotiations on climate change (COP25) are due to close later today in Madrid, after two weeks of talks where countries -- the big emitters in particular -- failed to put us on a path to achieve 1.5 degrees, avert climate catastrophe and...
Grupos de salud dicen: COP25 es un fracaso del liderazgo de proporciones históricas
En un momento en que las principales organizaciones de salud han reconocido la crisis climática como una emergencia de salud y las personas en todo el mundo están experimentando los impactos del cambio climático en su salud, sustento y vivienda, los líderes del gobierno todavía discuten sobre los plazos, evadiendo el tema de las normas y apuntándose unos a otros con el dedo.
COP25: Health sector denounces lack of funds for global climate measures
Paris Deal’s “right to health” cannot be achieved without ambitious action Madrid --- The global health community meeting at the Global Climate and Health Summit alongside COP25 urged governments meeting at the climate negotiations in Madrid to turn words into action...
2020 must focus on health action, ‘right to health’ enshrined in Paris Deal
Global health community gathers in Madrid to feed into COP25 negotiations LIVESTREAM LINK Madrid - The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene a one-day Global Climate and Health Summit on 7 December to help...
Media Advisory – Global Climate and Health Summit at COP25
What: Global Climate and Health Summit at COP25 When: From 0900 - 1730 CET on Saturday December 7th 2019 Where: Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Facultad de Medicina, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, s/n, Auditorium “Ramón y Cajal”, 2nd floor. Register here The...
United States’ withdrawal from Climate Agreement puts people’s health at risk
Philadelphia, November 5, 2019 -- United States President Donald Trump began the formal process to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change on 4th November. This decision puts people’s health, in the US and around the world, at greater...
Health sector demands world leaders at UN Climate Summit act on global health crisis
The UN Climate Summit will reveal clearly which countries are stepping up with the kind of climate leadership this challenge requires, and which prefer denial and delay over action at this critical juncture in the history of the world.
Attempts to hinder climate action stall progress at international political talks
Bonn, 28 June 2019 - To the dismay of health groups and over the objections of many delegations to this week’s climate talks in Bonn, negotiators failed to adopt the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5C...
Health groups alarmed that countries may drop IPCC science in climate agreement
Bonn, 24 June 2019 - The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today decried the renewed opposition by Saudi Arabia to accepting the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5C (1), which warned that the...