Submission to the UNFCCC First Global Stocktake, Second Technical Call

The document advocates for a de-siloed approach to climate change and global health, emphasizing that public health is both a prerequisite for and a critical indicator of the Paris Agreement's success. It highlights the significant health co-benefits of mitigation in energy, food, and transport sectors, while noting that the healthcare sector itself contributes 4.9% of global emissions. The submission calls for the Global Stocktake to monitor public health implications across sectors, track the healthcare sector's progress in mitigation and adaptation, and address the severe lack of climate finance directed toward health resilience.

• Climate change is identified as the "greatest threat to health of the 21st century" by the World Health Organization, with climate-sensitive threats already causing millions of avoidable deaths every year.
• Mitigation efforts in the energy, food and agriculture, and transport sectors could avoid 1.18 million, 5.86 million, and 1.15 million deaths annually by 2040, respectively, across nine specific countries: Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the USA.
• The healthcare sector is a significant emitter, contributing 4.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and represents approximately 10% of global GDP.
• There is a significant gap in climate finance for health; 70% of countries surveyed by the WHO that have health adaptation policies reported financing as a major barrier, and only 0.3% ($14.0 million) of multilateral climate change adaptation funding between 2018 and 2020 was directed specifically at the healthcare sector.
• While 90% of updated or enhanced NDCs as of October 2021 reflect health and climate linkages, only 28% recognized or assessed the health co-benefits of mitigation.
• Health impacts are recognized as non-economic losses under loss and damage, with evidence suggesting that approximately one third of heat-related deaths in recent decades are attributable to human-induced climate change.

APA

Global Climate and Health Alliance (2022). Submission to the UNFCCC First Global Stocktake, Second Technical Call. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Submission-by-World-Health-Organization-Global-Climate-and-Health-Alliance-and-Partners_August-2022_edit.pdf

Chicago

Global Climate and Health Alliance. Submission to the UNFCCC First Global Stocktake, Second Technical Call. 2022. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Submission-by-World-Health-Organization-Global-Climate-and-Health-Alliance-and-Partners_August-2022_edit.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalclimateandhealthalliance2022submission, author = {{Global Climate and Health Alliance}}, title = {{Submission to the UNFCCC First Global Stocktake, Second Technical Call}}, institution = {Global Climate and Health Alliance}, year = {2022}, month = aug, url = {https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Submission-by-World-Health-Organization-Global-Climate-and-Health-Alliance-and-Partners_August-2022_edit.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }