Dec 7, 2019
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...
Dec 5, 2019
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...
Dec 3, 2019
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 ...
Nov 5, 2019
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...
Nov 4, 2019
– by Nina Renshaw, Director of Policy and Advocacy at NCD Alliance (GCHA member) – We are less than a month away until countries meet in Madrid, Spain at the Climate Conference to decide on climate action to keep us at 1.5 C. Climate change was also the...
Nov 1, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – On 30 October, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced that Chile would be unable to host December’s UN climate negotiations, due to current civil unrest in the country. Members of leading health and development organizations from...
Oct 24, 2019
Sep 23, 2019
New York – The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) called on countries’ leaders meeting at the UN Climate Summit to strengthen their climate action commitments and to act on them, because they are essential to protecting the “right to health”, a core...
Sep 19, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – On September 23, the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres, will host a UN Climate Action Summit in New York. “Our overarching goal is to raise ambition and get the world on track to limit global temperature rise...
Sep 17, 2019
– by Rachel Thomson, Policy Fellow at World Obesity Federation (GCHA member) – The interconnections between climate and human health are now widely recognised: by scientists, by policymakers and by communities experiencing the effects of...
