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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 >>
COP26: Global Climate And Health Alliance Comment On Draft Text Implications For Health
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:16 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Glasgow, 11 November 2021:- As COP26 moves well towards the end of its second week, the Global Climate and Health Alliance called for governments to match their climate commitments to the 1.5C limit for global heating, in order to protect people’s ... More >>
Health And Climate Experts Warn Of Climate-Related Health Crisis
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 6:45 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Glasgow, November 6, 2021:- Health professionals and climate experts from around the world today called for urgent action to tackle the growing climate-related health crisis, during the Global Conference on Health and Climate Change in Glasgow alongside ... More >>
Health And Social Equity Must Form Beating Heart Of COP26 Negotiations - Health Sector
Monday, 1 November 2021, 7:58 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Glasgow, November 1, 2021:- World leaders must make health and social equity the beating heart of COP26 negotiations, by taking concerted action to limit global heating to less than 1.5C in line with Paris Climate Agreement and findings of the scientific ... More >>
45 Million Health Professionals Calls For Climate Action Ahead Of COP26 To Avert “Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity”
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 6:39 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
WHO report calls for ambitious climate commitments as the only path to long-term recovery from pandemic Geneva, 11 October 2021 - Just three weeks ahead of the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK more than 400 organizations representing ... More >>
IPCC Report: National Leaders Must Act On Climate Crisis To Ensure Human Health And Safety
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 7:38 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Global, 12 August 2021:- Responding to this week’s stark sixth assessment report by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], which finds that without major cuts to greenhouse gas emissions throughout the current ... More >>
Forest Fire Smoke Driving Increased Health Risks From Air Pollution Worldwide - Report
Thursday, 17 June 2021, 5:59 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Worldwide, Public Health Systems Must be Prepared for Health Impacts of Fires Related to Climate Crisis Canberra, London, Brasilia, Ottawa, 16/17 June 2021:- Bigger, more frequent forest and bush fires are having increased and not yet well-studied health ... More >>
Health Groups Call For Health To Be Put At Heart Of South Africa’s Climate Commitments
Saturday, 8 May 2021, 4:51 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance
South Africa, 7 May 2021:- South African and pan-African health groups are calling on the South African government to recognise that health is the bottom line of climate change, and to put health at the heart of its climate commitments ahead of this November’s ... More >>
Health Professionals Urged To Rise To The “Fierce Urgency” Of The Climate Crisis
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 6:21 am | Global Climate and Health Alliance
Although the COP26 UN climate negotiations may be a full year away, health professionals and their organizations must begin mobilizing now if they hope to influence the outcome of COP26 in November 2021, according to a call to action published in The Journal ... More >>
