The climate crisis is a health crisis
We mobilise the global health community to accelerate climate action
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We are doctors, nurses, clinicians, and therapists. We are health advocates, researchers, public health and policy experts.
We have come together because, wherever we are in the world, we are seeing how the climate crisis is impacting our patients, our communities, our public health and healthcare systems. Respiratory diseases are escalating; communicable diseases are spreading; humanitarian disaster are becoming more frequent.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and our communities and healthcare systems are starting to buckle.
But there is an answer: Climate solutions can be health solutions. That’s why we’re working together to hold decision makers accountable. To protect human health, we have to restore the planet.
We have a unique opportunity to improve health for all and to tackle global inequality, if we act fast.
Latest work
Current Vacancy: Head of Development
This is a role for an experienced international NGO fundraiser who combines strong existing relationships in climate and/or global health philanthropy with the organisational instincts and operational discipline to build a development function largely from scratch.
Listen to our members share why they have joined the GCHA movement and how they are driving change.
Our network
Organisations
We are a network of 200+ health and development organisations
Million health workers
Number of health workers represented by our member & partner organisations
Countries
Our network spans every continent and 125+ countries
News and Events
COP30 State of Play: People’s Health Hangs in the Balance, as Key COP Priorities Still Under Debate
“With a number of vital issues still in play at COP30, the health community is calling on governments at the Amazon’s COP to deliver on the meeting’s avowed objective”, said Dr Jeni Miller, Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, a consortium of more than 200 health professional and health civil society organisations and networks from around the world addressing climate change. “Belém was promised to be the COP of implementation, where commitments would be turned into actionable and measurable plans, supported by the necessary finance and collaboration to bring them to fruition. Protecting people’s health means implementing climate action, and with the days ticking away, now is the moment to take this action.”
Video: Health Professionals Join NYC March to End Fossil Fuels
Dozens of doctors, nurses and other professionals working in the health sector joined tens of thousands of marchers outside the New York headquarters of the United Nations during The March to End Fossil Fuels
Health Policy Watch: Only 21 Countries have Updated National Climate Action Plans – Few Actually Track Health Benefits
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 Thursday, global climate commitments remain extraordinarily weak.
Climate and Health Facts
The Climate and Us
Real stories of climate and health from around the world
The Climate and Us is a series of short branded films produced for the the Global Climate and Health Alliance by the BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. Divided into three Chapters, the series takes you on a cinematic journey across the world to explore the many ways in which a changing climate is impacting people’s health and wellbeing.
