Jul 15, 2021
Inside Climate, July 15, 2021: The report by the California-based Global Climate and Health Alliance, concluded that of 40 countries whose NDCs were reviewed (one of which covered all 27 European Union nations), few provided more than superficial detail on how...
Jul 7, 2021
Update: September 21, 2021 – New Round of Scorecards added The Healthy NDCs Scorecard can be downloaded from here Watch press briefings here (inc presentation PPT) or here on YouTube See Statement from Costa Rica environment minister below For more details...
Jul 7, 2021
The Guardian, 7 July 2021: The findings come as a separate analysis by the Global Climate and Health Alliance ranked Australia equal last out of 66 countries for efforts to include human health concerns in their climate commitments. Australia, New Zealand, Brazil,...
Jun 16, 2021
Worldwide, Public Health Systems Must be Prepared for Health Impacts of Fires Related to Climate Crisis Canberra, London, Brasilia, Ottawa, 16/17 June 2021:- Bigger, more frequent forest and bush fires are having increased and not yet well-studied health impacts on...
May 6, 2021
South Africa, 7 May 2021:- South African and pan-African health groups are calling on the South African government to recognise that health is the bottom line of climate change, and to put health at the heart of its climate commitments ahead of this November’s COP26...
May 6, 2021
As governments prepare for COP26, the health sector is not standing idly by — we are watching, we are engaging, and we are demanding that health be put front and centre of national climate policies, in order to protect people’s health from the impacts of...
Apr 23, 2021
Izkia Siches Pastén is a Chilean surgeon physician. Now on her second mandate, she is the first woman and the youngest president of the Chilean Medical College, Chile’s largest trade association of doctors and physicians, which she has been leading since 2017. She is...
Apr 23, 2021
21/4/2021, Health Policy Watch Climate activists have high hopes that at this week’s Leaders Summit on Climate, hosted by US President Joe Biden with forty other heads of state, climate change will be framed as a health issue that is exacerbating the risk of future...
Apr 21, 2021
Bengaluru, 22 April, 2021:- Up to two million schoolchildren (20 lakhs) in Bengaluru, India are potentially exposed to dangerous air pollution during their school day, risking asthma, allergic rhinitis and other chronic health impacts, according to a report released...
Apr 20, 2021
Jeni Miller, Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance, calls on world leaders attending the Leaders Climate Summit on April 22, 2021 to embed health in climate policy ahead of COP26. Interviewed by James Menendez on BBC World Service Newshour, 19 April...
