May 1, 2019
Apr 21, 2019
By Kinari Webb and Courtney Howard Drs. Kinari Webb and Courtney Howard, from GCHA member organizations Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Health in Harmony, call for a planetary health approach to heal humans and the planet. Continue...
Apr 3, 2019
(German) The connection between climate change and health is increasingly the subject of international research. At COP24 in Katowice, the World Health Organization convened a conference on this subject. I attended as a member of the Board of Directors of the North...
Mar 15, 2019
GCHA board member Dr. Courtney Howard of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment writes, “The scale of the climate crisis and the threat to human life has just been made clear in the starkest possible terms by youthful truth-tellers. There is...
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 4, 2019
Guest blog, Rashmi Venkatraman Conference of the Parties (COP) is the annual meeting held between participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 24th meeting took place in Katowice, Poland. COP24 in December 2018 brought...
Dec 13, 2018
Katowice, 13 December 2018:- The Global Climate and Health Alliance today called for countries to follow through on their commitment to protect the “right to health” under the Paris Agreement, ensuring that COP24 negotiators explicitly include “health” in...
Nov 29, 2018
Following release of The Lancet report, the Global Climate and Health Alliance, an international coalition of health and development organizations, called on world leaders to take the actions required to limit global warming to the targets set by the Paris climate...
Nov 28, 2018
London, 28 November 2018 Following today’s release of the second The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change report, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called on world leaders to take the actions required to limit global warming to the...
Oct 22, 2018
We are facing a global emergency and should organise accordingly Twelve years to act or we will face catastrophic climate change. This is the core message of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on 8 October.1 The basis for...
