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.
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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
As Latin America’s Health Pays Price of Climate Crisis, Wealthy Countries Must Deliver Climate Justice
As the 2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health opens, more than 50 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) health organisations today called on governments to stop fueling the climate crisis, for wealthy countries take the lead on cutting climate warming emissions, provide comprehensive and fair finance to prevent and repair health damages and deepening inequalities in the LAC region, and end exploitive resource extraction in the region.
Video: Global Alignment & Effective Positioning – Resonating within the Climate Agenda
Forecasting The global health community has an immediate opportunity to increase its voice in the fight against climate change, leveraging mounting evidence of growing mortality and morbidity rates as an incentive for greater...
Associated Press: Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms
Global Climate and Health Alliance quoted: “Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says.”
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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.
Member spotlight
Health and Environment Alliance
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is the leading European not-for-profit organisation addressing how the natural and built environments affect health in the European Union (EU) and beyond.
HEAL’s vision is a world in which today’s and future generations can benefit from a clean environment to enjoy long and healthy lives.
