SB64: Health Community Calls on Bonn Climate Meeting to Triple Adaptation Finance

SB64: Health Community Calls on Bonn Climate Meeting to Triple Adaptation Finance

As the annual UNFCCC Bonn climate meeting (SB 64, June 8-18) opens in Germany, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called on governments to triple public, grant-based adaptation finance, in order to ensure the creation of national energy transition roadmaps, to deliver on pledges to address loss and damage, and to define a process and scope for a loss and damage report. 

Health Community: “Climate & Health Inseparable in Practice So Must Be In Policy”

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.

COP30 Delivers Incremental Climate Action, But Lack of Implementation Support Jeopardises Health

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 State of Play: People’s Health Hangs in the Balance, as Key COP Priorities Still Under Debate

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.”

Press Invite – Launch of Fossil-Free Advertising Blueprint at COP30

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.