Health Community: “Climate & Health Inseparable in Practice So Must Be In Policy”
Following last week’s 79th World Health Assembly, the Global Climate and Health Alliance, representing over 250 health organisations, is urging governments and the World Health Organization to integrate climate change considerations into and across all areas of global health planning, programs and policy, and to recognize the profound health harming impacts of the primary driver of climate change, fossil fuels.
Global Climate and Health Alliance Response to UNGA Vote on ICJ Climate Ruling
“From the World Health Assembly in Geneva, we salute an historic step for climate justice and global public health. “
Event Alongside World Health Assembly: Fossil Fuels, Health, and Human Rights – Centering Health and Human Rights in the Global Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
This side event at the World Health Assembly will gather top experts from human rights, health, and government to discuss how using a human rights-based approach can speed up the move away from fossil fuels, protect health, and promote fairness around the world.
Santa Marta: Leaders Take Steps Towards Fossil Fuel Exit – Yet Overlook Health
“These efforts, in themselves, are positive steps for health, yet leaders at the conference overlooked a critical component of the conversation – they did not address the importance of protecting people’s health”
Amid Escalating Heat and Health Crises, Santa Marta Leaders Must Put Health at Centre of Fossil Fuel Exit
At Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, health community calls on national leaders to make health centerpiece of exit global fossil fuel dependency.
Santa Marta Conference: Health Must Become Imperative for Governments’ Exit From Fossil Fuel Dependence
Ahead of next week’s Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia, the Global Climate and Health Alliance, a consortium of over 250 health organisation, is calling on the more than 50 participating national governments to push human health to the forefront of national plans to end global fossil fuel dependency.
COP30 Delivers Incremental Climate Action, But Lack of Implementation Support Jeopardises Health
As the COP 30 climate summit closed today, the Global Climate and Health Alliance bemoaned governments’ failure to deliver a genuinely transformative COP, including the lack of agreed progress on the phaseout of fossil fuels, while noting some areas of progress – such as institutional architecture to support just transitions and increased adaptation finance, and an announcement from the COP president regarding a future roadmap for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
COP30: Health Community Welcomes Mexico’s Landmark Climate Commitments
The Global Climate and Health Alliance today welcomed Mexico’s publication of its climate commitments – its Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0 (NDC), and its signing of the Common Position of Latin America and the Caribbean on Climate Change and Health.
COP30: Global Health Leaders Call for a Life-Saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
At COP30, physicians, nurses, and health and medical students representing millions of health workers worldwide issued an urgent call for countries to support a global commitment to Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF).
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.”
Adaptation finance crucial to strengthen health in the face of life-threatening climate conditions
Photos from the press event HERE Recording of the Press Conference can be found here. Belem, 13 November 2025 – Today, on Health Day at COP30, Regions4, the Global Climate & Health Alliance and CarbonCopy hosted a press conference, focused on “Positioning Health...
Press Invite – Launch of Fossil-Free Advertising Blueprint at COP30
At COP30, at a panel moderated by the United Nations, ACT Climate Labs, The Global Climate and Health Alliance, and Doctors Without Borders will unveil a five-step roadmap to make this transition, in a manner that’s commercially viable and strategically sound. The report positions this shift as smart business – guiding firms toward the $4.5T circular economy.
COP30 Nov 13 Press Conference: Positioning Health at the Center of Adaptation Finance
Timing: 2.30pm-3pm (local time) 📅 Date: 13 November 📌 Location: UNFCCC Press Conference 2, Area D, Belem On-the-ground contact: Shitiz Jha +91 93106 23741. A recording will be available after the event. Contact [email protected] for interviews...
Press Invitation & Photo Opportunity – and Press Release: Global March for Health & Climate, Belém November 11
Unprecedented mobilization will bring together doctors, nurses, students, organizations and social movements on November 11 to break the silence on health in climate negotiations
Will COP30 Be the Turning Point We Need? Health Community Calls on Delegates to Make Lives and Health Central to Climate Talks
Ahead of the COP 30 climate summit, the health community is calling on all governments, led by developed countries, to honor responsibilities to support adaptation and climate action in developing countries, and to lead the transition away from fossil fuels in order to deliver clean air, saved lives, strong health systems, and sustainable economies.
Statement from the Global Climate and Health Alliance Regarding Bill Gates Commentary and Responses to It
“There cannot be sustainable human development without tackling the multiple aspects of the climate crisis at the same time – including both a rapid, just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels, and massively scaled up finance for adaptation. Tackling the causes of climate change cannot wait, nor will technology alone fix the problem.”
Ahead of COP30, “The Well-Oiled Plan” Film Denounces PR & Fossil Fuel Industry Disinformation
Ahead of November’s COP 30 climate summit in Brazil, a darkly satirical and provocative short animated film released today condemns the public relations industry’s role in driving the devastating impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use on human health, through its spreading of disinformation.
Cross-Cutting Report Reveals Devastating Global Health Impacts of Fossil Fuels – Thru Production Life Cycle, & Across Human Lifespan
A sweeping new report released today reveals the devastating impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use on human health. Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition provides the first comprehensive global overview of the health consequences associated with fossil fuel use at every stage of their lifecycle, from extraction to waste, and across the human lifespan, from pregnancy and pre-birth to old age.