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COP28: ‘Abated’ Fossil Fuels Would Still Prove Devastating To Human Health
Monday, 11 December 2023, 8:39 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
As the COP28 climate negotiations roll into their final days, the Global Climate and Health Alliance today warned negotiators that some of the pathways available in the current COP28 texts will prove detrimental to human health. While the future ... More >>
COP28: Wealthy Countries Hesitation On Adaptation Targets Poses Grave Risk To Human Health
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 5:05 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
As COP28 climate negotiations head into week two, governments are finalising the details of a two year process to agree the direction of adaptation action. These discussions will define how and whether progress on adaptation is framed and measured ... More >>
Health NGO Reacts To Signing Of COP28 Declaration On Climate And Health By Over 120 Countries
Sunday, 3 December 2023, 6:54 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Reacting to today’s announcement that 123 governments have now endorsed the COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health : “We welcome today’s announcement of 123 countries endorsing the COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health,” said Dr Jeni Miller, Executive ... More >>
Global Health and Medical Community Unite To Demand End Fossil Fuel Dependency at COP28
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 7:35 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
1st November, 00:01 hrs CEST: A letter published today on behalf of the international health and medical community, addressed to COP 28 President-Designate Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber demands that “ countries commit to an accelerated, just and equitable ... More >>
Air Pollution Study Finds G20 Countries Fall Short On Integrating Air Quality Into Climate Plans
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 7:38 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Low and middle income countries lead way by taking action to improve air quality in national climate plans London, 18 October 2023:- With 99% of the world’s population breathing polluted air - in excess of WHO guideline limits , a new scorecard shows ... More >>
NYC Climate Week; Health Professionals Demand Fossil Fuel Phase Out Ahead UN Climate Ambition Summit
Monday, 18 September 2023, 7:49 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
New York,18th September:- Health professionals from around the world called on governments to commit to an accelerated, just and equitable phase-out of fossil fuels as a decisive path to health for all ahead of this week’s Climate Ambition Summit on September ... More >>
Slashing Global Methane Emissions Crucial To Human Health - Report
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 7:20 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
London/Washington DC, 30 August 2023:- Making deep cuts to global methane emissions could deliver substantial health benefits while also limiting global warming to 1.5C or close to it, according to a series of reports published today by the Global Climate ... More >>
As ‘Health COP’ Approaches, Analysis Shows Big Emitting Nations Doing Too Little To Protect Health From Climate Change
Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 5:56 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
16 May, 2023:- With this December’s COP28 fast approaching, low- and middle income countries lead the way when it comes to inclusion of health goals in their climate commitments, while more wealthy, industrialised nations - responsible for the majority ... More >>
IPCC Synthesis Report Reaction: Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Imperative To Human Health
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 6:52 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Geneva, 20 March 2023:- Ahead of today’s publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report (SYR), a global coalition of health professionals is calling on governments to fund loss and damage response, ... More >>
Health Professionals Welcome COP28 Health Day But Emphasize Health Focus Must Go Further
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 5:44 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Abu Dhabi, 14 March 2023:- Responding to the announcement by COP28 director-general, Ambassador Majid Al Suwaidi, that a ‘Health Day’ will take place during this year’s UN climate summit, the Global Climate and Health Alliance welcomed the elevation ... More >>
COP27: Health Organizations Issue Stern Demand For Loss And Damage Fund
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 5:45 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Sharm El-Sheikh, 16 November 2022:- As negotiations move to the ministerial level at COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt, the Global Climate and Health Alliance today reiterated its call for a governments to commit to establishing a Loss and Damage fund under ... More >>
Health Orgs: COP27 Governments Must Stay At Table To Reach Robust Loss And Damage Agreement
Sunday, 20 November 2022, 4:58 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Sharm El-Sheikh, 1300 EET, 19 November 2022: Amidst rumors that COP27 may close without an agreement, and trigger a special session in mid-2023, or defer agreement on key issues until COP28, the Jeni Miller, Executive Director of Global Climate ... More >>
COP27 Oil & Gas Proposal Earns Sharp Rebuke From Global Health Community
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 1:20 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Sharm El-Sheikh, 11 November 2022:- As the COP27 Climate Summit’s ‘Decarbonisation Day’ closes in Egypt, the Global Climate and Health Alliance denounced fossil fuel industry’s push for greater oil and gas development, and reiterates the worldwide ... More >>
COP27 & Health: World Leaders Must Deliver Plans For Fossil Fuel Phase-out & Climate Finance
Sunday, 6 November 2022, 8:36 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Sharm El-Sheikh, 6 November 2022:- As the COP27 Climate Summit opens this week in Egypt, the Global Climate and Health Alliance calls on governments to protect the health of people worldwide by developing a clear plan for delivering finance to lower ... More >>
Report: Healthy Fossil Fuel Free World Means Re-Imagining New Clean Energy Future
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 5:26 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Global, 10 October, 2022:- Governments can achieve a clean energy future for thriving healthy societies by effectively implementing a just energy transition, according to a briefing published today. A Just Energy Transition for a Healthy Fossil ... More >>
Health At Bonn Climate Conference: Unconscionable Failure Of Developed Countries To Address Loss And Damage
Saturday, 18 June 2022, 5:38 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Loss and Damage Must be Addressed at COP27 To Protect People’s Health “Developing countries need increased energy access, and shouldn’t have to pay with their health.” Bonn, 17 June 2022 - As the Bonn Climate Change Conference closed this week, the ... More >>
IPCC Mitigation Climate Report: Health And Equity Must Be Central To Climate Policy
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 5:48 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Global, 5 April 2022:- Reacting to the publication of the Mitigation of Climate Change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which proposes drastic action taken this decade as essential for providing humanity with a chance ... More >>
IPCC Impacts Report: National Leaders Must Act On Climate Crisis To Ensure Human Health And Safety
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 6:57 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Global, 28 February 2022:- Responding to today’s publication of the stark Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which details widespread, growing, and potentially catastrophic impacts of ... More >>
Global Climate And Health Alliance: COP26 Outcomes Not Nearly Enough To Protect Health
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 5:55 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Responding to the outcomes of COP26 in Glasgow, Dr Jeni Miller, Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, said: “The health community came to COP26 with clear demands from 46 million health workers on issues critical to protecting ... More >>
Governments Must Deliver COP26 Outcome That Protects Human Health
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 7:38 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Statement from Global Climate and Health Alliance Glasgow, 12 November 2021:- With just hours to go at COP26, the Global Climate and Health Alliance slammed the absence of concrete plans to reduce emissions in line with 1.5C in the current outcomes text ... More >>