A COP29 for People and Planet

A report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance providing nine strategic recommendations for COP29 to integrate human health into climate negotiations, focusing on the implementation of the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health.

• The report calls for the establishment of formal reporting and follow-up mechanisms for the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health, including biannual Ministerial meetings starting in 2025 and a UN High Level Meeting on Health and Climate Change in New York by 2028.
• Health considerations should be embedded in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other national policies, emphasizing a timeline for fossil fuel phase-out and the reduction of super pollutants like methane and black carbon to prevent premature deaths from air pollution.
• The document advocates for a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance with a minimum public finance target of USD 1 trillion per year in predominantly grants-based funding from developed to developing countries.
• A rapid and just phase-out of fossil fuels is presented as a public health imperative, with a goal to triple renewable electricity capacity by 2030 and deploy at least 1.5 terawatts of renewable electricity annually.
• The report recommends that adaptation planning be linked to the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience and the NCQG to address a USD 11 billion annual shortfall in health sector adaptation finance in developing countries.
• The authors urge the capitalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to address public health impacts and recommend that the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage be used to quantify health-related losses.
• The report calls for a transition toward agroecology and sustainable healthy diets to improve nutrition security and reduce emissions, while phasing out industrial agriculture and emissions-intensive agrochemicals.
• To ensure policy integrity, the report recommends strengthening the UNFCCC Conflict of Interest Policy to reduce the influence of fossil fuel-dependent industries and agro-industrial multinationals in policymaking.

APA

Global Climate and Health Alliance (2024). A COP29 for People and Planet. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/COP29-UPDATED_Digital_NOV-11.pdf

Chicago

Global Climate and Health Alliance. A COP29 for People and Planet. 2024. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/COP29-UPDATED_Digital_NOV-11.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalclimateandhealthalliance2024cop29, author = {{Global Climate and Health Alliance}}, title = {{A COP29 for People and Planet}}, institution = {Global Climate and Health Alliance}, year = {2024}, url = {https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/COP29-UPDATED_Digital_NOV-11.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }