Apr 7, 2021
First published on Climate Home News, 7 April 2021 Jeni Miller For seven decades, the World Health Organization has used April 7th, World Health Day to bring important health issues to public attention. This year, as the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, the theme...
Apr 6, 2021
Global, April 7, 2021:- Governments worldwide must mark today, World Health Day, by seizing the opportunity to make health the keystone of their national climate action commitments ahead of November’s COP26 climate summit, said an international consortium of health...
Apr 1, 2021
The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change stated that “climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. In 2019, the world’s leading medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, provided readers with “a...
Feb 26, 2021
The climate crisis is the greatest health threat of the 21st century and threatens not only biodiversity but also our health. For a long time, this threat has remained abstract – partly because of the way we have been communicating and highlighting the severe...
Jan 31, 2021
Dec 4, 2020
Global, December 9, 2020:- Although the COP26 UN climate negotiations may be a full year away, health professionals and their organizations must begin mobilizing now if they hope to influence the outcome of COP26 in November 2021, according to a call to action...
Dec 2, 2020
London, 2 December 2020:- Responding to the launch of The 2020 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the Global Climate and Health Alliance today called on national governments to step up their climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, and...
Nov 13, 2020
Nov 5, 2020
November 9th event – Race to Zero Dialogue on Climate & Health – to put health and equity at center of ambitious climate action; COVID-19 a wake up call for greater threats, such as climate change, says Dr Tedros, WHO Director General Global, 5th...
Oct 28, 2020
Faith groups, health professionals, youth climate leaders and academics join Conservative MPs and former world leaders in urging UK to ramp up Paris Agreement target as
