The climate crisis is a health crisis
We mobilise the global health community to accelerate climate action
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We are doctors, nurses, clinicians, and therapists. We are health advocates, researchers, public health and policy experts.
We have come together because, wherever we are in the world, we are seeing how the climate crisis is impacting our patients, our communities, our public health and healthcare systems. Respiratory diseases are escalating; communicable diseases are spreading; humanitarian disaster are becoming more frequent.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and our communities and healthcare systems are starting to buckle.
But there is an answer: Climate solutions can be health solutions. That’s why we’re working together to hold decision makers accountable. To protect human health, we have to restore the planet.
We have a unique opportunity to improve health for all and to tackle global inequality, if we act fast.
Latest work
Our network
Organisations
We are a network of 200+ health and development organisations
Million health workers
Number of health workers represented by our member & partner organisations
Countries
Our network spans every continent and 125+ countries
News and Events
WHA78 and the Climate-Health Intersection: Progress, gaps and the way forward
Members of the GCHA share their insights from the 78th World Health Assembly 2025 – unpacking progress made, identifying ongoing gaps, and describing what’s needed to move this agenda forward....
Heat waves: a major health threat
HEAL, the Health and Environment Alliance, has gathered comprehensive data and resources demonstrating the impacts of heat waves on human health. Climate change leads to an increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events,...
Politico: Can COP29 Deliver on Health?
CAN COP29 DELIVER ON HEALTH? It’s climate week in New York and, for the first time, health is one of the themes. And not before time — 2 billion people, or 25 percent of the world’s population, have experienced 30 days of heat that put their health at risk, the Global Climate and Health Alliance warned on Tuesday.
LATEST EVENT
Launch of the Pan-African Multilateral Partnership on Climate Change and Health
This World Health Assembly side event aims to bring together multiple countries in Africa to generate high level conversation, debate and political solutions to boost progress in the global efforts to adapt and mitigate against climate change effects on universal health coverage with women and youth at the centre.
Climate and Health Facts
The Climate and Us
Real stories of climate and health from around the world
The Climate and Us is a series of short branded films produced for the the Global Climate and Health Alliance by the BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. Divided into three Chapters, the series takes you on a cinematic journey across the world to explore the many ways in which a changing climate is impacting people’s health and wellbeing.
Member spotlight
Health and Environment Alliance
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is the leading European not-for-profit organisation addressing how the natural and built environments affect health in the European Union (EU) and beyond.
HEAL’s vision is a world in which today’s and future generations can benefit from a clean environment to enjoy long and healthy lives.
