Our Impact

GCHA work catalysed the development and adoption of a new World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on climate and health that was adopted by consensus at WHA77, with co-sponsorship by a striking 37 countries.

GCHA partnered with BBC Storyworks on a series of short branded films that explore the many ways in which a changing climate is impacting people’s health and wellbeing across the globe. On the BBC.com alone the series website page received over 2.6 million views and was shared/screened at the 76th World Health Assembly, Africa Climate Week , NY Climate Week and the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28).

GCHA and partners produced a series of reports, events and videos in multiple languages which increased global knowledge of the links between methane and health.

GCHA work to diversify health voices in the media during COP28 resulted in 27 media stories featuring GCHA spokespeople including 4 young people and representatives from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Southeast Asia.

GCHA work succeeded in integrating health into Global Stocktake discussions and in getting health language into the Global Goal on Adaptation during COP28.

GCHA, the World Health Organization and partners coordinated a letter on behalf of the health community (350+ health organisations across the globe) demanding that governments lay out a legally binding global plan (Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty) to phase out fossil fuel use.

GCHA and partners coordinated a letter from the global health community to G20 leaders and finance ministers challenging pandemic economic recovery plans that would worsen the climate crisis.This was the largest mobilisation of the global health community for climate action since the run-up to the 2015 Paris climate agreement and over 350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals, and 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries signed the letter, which garnered worldwide media coverage.

To date, GCHA co-chairs the working group which aims to foster a strong and sustained health voice, informing decision-making on the climate crisis nationally and internationally, and driving urgent action on climate change and is the only WHO working group co-chaired by a civil society partner.

In the 2015 run up to COP21, GCHA spearheaded declarations from health organisations representing more than 13 million health professionals and 8,200 health facilities, feeding into momentum for the Paris Agreement, and ensuring the “right to health” was included.