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
Current Vacancy: Head of Development
This is a role for an experienced international NGO fundraiser who combines strong existing relationships in climate and/or global health philanthropy with the organisational instincts and operational discipline to build a development function largely from scratch.
Listen to our members share why they have joined the GCHA movement and how they are driving change.
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
Will COP30 Be the Turning Point We Need? Health Community Calls on Delegates to Make Lives and Health Central to Climate Talks
Ahead of the COP 30 climate summit, the health community is calling on all governments, led by developed countries, to honor responsibilities to support adaptation and climate action in developing countries, and to lead the transition away from fossil fuels in order to deliver clean air, saved lives, strong health systems, and sustainable economies.
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,...
Associated Press: Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms
Global Climate and Health Alliance quoted: “Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says.”
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.
