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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 >>
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 >>
