Achieving a healthy COP28

A letter from the Global Climate and Health Alliance to health ministers during COP28, urging the integration of health and wellbeing as a central benchmark for climate negotiations and calling for a full phase-out of fossil fuels as a public health necessity.

• The Global Climate and Health Alliance describes the climate and nature crisis as a health emergency, noting that current warming levels are straining health systems and increasing the prevalence of respiratory diseases, mortality rates from heatwaves, droughts, and floods, and the frequency of humanitarian disasters.
• The Alliance outlines four specific demands for health ministers at COP28: the complete phase-out of fossil fuels, which they term a public health imperative; a loss and damage fund that addresses community health needs; finance for climate action; and the establishment of health as a primary metric for measuring climate action.
• The document asserts that G20 countries bear a responsibility to lead the phase-out of fossil fuels due to their status as nations with some of the largest historic emissions.

APA

Miller, J. (2023). Achieving a healthy COP28. Global Climate and Health Alliance. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/291102023_cop_gcha_letter_to_health_ministers.pdf

Chicago

Miller, Jeni. Achieving a healthy COP28. Global Climate and Health Alliance, 2023. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/291102023_cop_gcha_letter_to_health_ministers.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{miller2023achieving, author = {Miller, Jeni}, title = {{Achieving a healthy COP28}}, publisher = {Global Climate and Health Alliance}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/291102023_cop_gcha_letter_to_health_ministers.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }