Jun 4, 2025
Health Policy Watch, June 3, 2025, by Elaine Fletcher: Most countries’ climate action plans refer to the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as reduced air pollution, but few actually track them. And as World Environment Day is observed...
Jun 2, 2025
Health Policy Watch, 2 June 2025, by Sophia Samantaroy Over 30 health organizations representing 12 million doctors, nurses, and public health professionals globally have pledged to no longer work with advertising agencies that partner with the fossil fuel industry,...
May 27, 2025
Geneva, 27 May 2025:- The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) today welcomed the adoption by the World Health Organization’s 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) of the Global Action Plan (GAP), which will take forward last year’s Resolution on Climate Change and...
May 22, 2025
Video of today’s launch of the Break the Fossil Influence initiative in Geneva, featuring: Shweta Narayan, Campaign Lead at the Global Climate and Health Alliance Moderator: Dr Jeni Miller, Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance Vivek Parekh,...
May 15, 2025
Geneva, 15 May 2025:- Ahead of next week’s 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78), the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) is calling on all 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member states to urgently step up cross-sector cooperation on climate and health,...
Apr 15, 2025
By Sharmila Dhungana, GCHA Member Coordinator, and Emily Benson, GCHA Communications Advisor In a volatile global political climate, where borders are closing, aid is shrinking, and scientific collaboration is being undermined, the Global Climate and Health...
Apr 1, 2025
My name is Elvis Ndikum from Cameroon, and I’m a clean air advocate leading the Global Youth Strategy on Air Pollution and Climate Health (GYS). GYS works on mobilizing global action through advocacy to address air pollution and its impact on climate health....
Mar 24, 2025
The World Health Organization’s conference on air pollution and health opens this week in Cartagena, Colombia. Dr Yuri Carvajal is a board member of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and President of the Environment Department of The Medical College of Chile....
Mar 20, 2025
Cartagena, 20 March 2025:- Ahead of next week’s WHO conference on the health impacts of air pollution, health professionals are calling for governments to urgently protect their populations from the deadly health impacts of polluted air and to ramp up investment in...
Mar 18, 2025
Air pollution, primarily driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is one of the greatest public health threats globally, contributing to 7 million premature deaths annually and exacerbating the climate crisis. The same pollutants that harm human health also contribute...
