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Health Community Welcomes Bonn Deal To Monitor Climate Finance But Criticises Rich Countries’ Efforts To Shirk Duties
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 6:02 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
“With people's lives on the line, grants-based public finance must urgently be delivered to adequately protect the health and wellbeing of people most vulnerable to climate impacts - as aligned with their Paris Agreement responsibilities”, said ... More >>
Health Community Demands Ambition On Ending Fossil Fuel Dependence And Robust Investment In Protecting Communities
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 9:32 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
“Brazil’s rare and critical opportunity to reform decision-making on global climate action should not be squandered”, said Jeni Miller, Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. More >>
World Health Assembly: Health Community Hails Adoption Of Climate & Health Action Plan, But Slams Fossil Fuel Omissions
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 6:57 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Without action to mitigate climate change through reduction of fossil fuel use, the health impacts of climate change will soon outstrip the capacities of health systems to respond. More >>
Over 30 Health Organisations Shun PR And Ad Agencies That Work For Fossil Fuel Industry
Saturday, 24 May 2025, 4:44 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
To support more organisations in making the Fossil-Free Health Communications commitment, the Global Climate and Health Alliance has published Break the Fossil Influence - Guidance for Health Organizations to Screen PR & Media Agencies. More >>
World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Demand Urgent Action On Climate Commitments
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 8:37 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
This World Health Assembly must ensure that governments recognise and respond to the profound role that climate change and its primary driver, fossil fuels, now play in determining health outcomes for people around the world. More >>
As WHO Air Pollution Conference Opens Today, New Roadmap Launched To Help Governments Tackle Health Impacts
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 8:39 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
The recommendations are detailed in a new publication, Clean Air, Healthy Lives: A Policy Roadmap for Health Systems to Tackle Air Pollution, by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) ahead of the World Health Organization’s Second Global ... More >>
Clean Air: A Right, Not A Privilege - New Roadmap Launched To Aid Governments Tackle Air Pollution
Friday, 21 March 2025, 3:29 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
20 March 2025 Ahead of next week’s WHO conference on the health impacts of air pollution, health professionals are calling for governments to urgently protect their populations from the deadly health impacts of polluted air and ramp up investment ... More >>
Report: New Zealand's Climate Commitments Fail To Address Health Impacts
Monday, 10 February 2025, 6:40 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
New Zealand’s NDC shows limited mitigation ambition, and neglects health considerations New Zealand's future NDCs should integrate measurable health targets and financing for health-related measures. More >>
COP29 Climate Finance Deals Leaves Millions Of Lives On Line
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 2:53 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
At COP29, the US and other developed countries failed to meet their responsibilities under the Paris Agreement to financially assist developing countries to deal with the devastating impacts of climate change. More >>
COP29: Health Community Slams Proposed Climate Finance Deal
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 9:12 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
“If COP29 agrees on the text shown to us today, it would sign a death sentence for millions", said Jess Beagley, Policy Lead at the Global Climate and Health Alliance, a consortium of more than 200 health professional and health civil society organisations ... More >>
COP29: Crucial Climate Finance Deal Depends On Moral Backbones Of Wealthy Countries’ Leaders
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 7:13 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
It is unconscionable that developed countries, including Canada, the US, Australia, the EU, Switzerland, France and Japan are blocking a deal on climate finance, or deflecting responsibility onto private financial entities. More >>
COP29: Countries’ Early Delivery Of National Climate Plans Welcome, But More Ambition Required Say Health Orgs
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 7:35 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
In the lead up to COP29 and in recent days, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and others - all parties to the Paris Agreement - announced the emissions reductions targets they are committing to in their third iterations (NDCs 3.0) of their national ... More >>
Governments Must Commit Trillions In Climate Finance To Protect People’s Health
Monday, 11 November 2024, 8:00 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
More than 100 organisations from across the international health and climate community have endorsed nine recommendations for the summit in ‘A COP29 for People and Planet’, a policy brief produced through consultations convened by the Global Climate and ... More >>
Climate Week: Clock Ticking For Governments To Make Strides On Health Ahead Of COP29
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 7:09 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
“Governments must agree to an ambitious updated climate finance commitment, the New Collective Quantified Goal. This must be in the order of trillions, based on grants, not loans, and respond to the needs of developing countries across adaptation, ... More >>
Lancet Paper Addresses How Health Systems Can Prepare For And Cope With Wildfires
Friday, 9 August 2024, 4:32 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Before, During, After: New framework for health system response to wildfires and smoke is published in Lancet Planetary Health More >>
As Bonn Climate Meeting Fails To Deliver, G7 Countries Must Protect Health And Lives
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 3:51 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Progress stalled in Bonn, with some countries deliberately avoiding discussions on ending fossil fuel use, undermining progress made at COP28, despite efforts by others to advance action. More >>
Bonn Climate Meeting Must Continue Momentum To Protect Health From Climate Change
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 5:05 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
The Global Climate and Health Alliance is calling on governments to focus on health and health equity, as a spur to motivate significant progress on how the commitments made during last year’s COP28 negotiations will be delivered. More >>
World Health Assembly: Health Professionals Hail Adoption Of Landmark Climate And Health Resolution
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:20 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Resolution adopted by consensus More >>
Urgent Climate Resolution Must Be Adopted At This Week’s WHO World Health Assembly
Monday, 27 May 2024, 5:25 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Resolution expected to be adopted by consensus on Friday 31st May or Saturday 1st June. More >>
Why Urgent Climate Resolution Must Be Adopted During WHO World Health Assembly
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 5:15 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Adoption of the Climate Change and Health resolution during this month’s World Health Assembly would demonstrate a clear political commitment by governments and WHO to scale up climate action as a public health priority in order to protect people ... More >>