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This submission by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and the Health and Climate Network (HCN) to the UNFCCC Global Stocktake first technical call argues that health is a prerequisite for the successful implementation of the Paris Agreement. The document advocates for the integration of health metrics and outcomes across mitigation, adaptation, finance, and loss and damage frameworks to maximize co-benefits and protect vulnerable populations.

This briefing, submitted by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and the Health and Climate Network (HCN) in February 2022, advocates for the integration of health as a central component of the UNFCCC's Global Stocktake (GST). The document argues that health is a prerequisite and critical indicator for the success of the Paris Agreement, emphasizing that ambitious climate mitigation provides immediate health co-benefits, while adaptation and loss and damage frameworks must explicitly prioritize health infrastructure and funding to protect vulnerable populations.

This October 2021 briefing from the Global Climate and Health Alliance argues that achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement is a critical priority for global health. It calls on governments to integrate health into climate policy through transitions in energy, transport, food systems, and healthcare infrastructure to mitigate rising health threats and inequalities.

A statement by the YOUNGO Health Working Group emphasizing the necessity of meaningful youth participation in climate and health negotiations to facilitate an ecological recovery post-COVID-19 and to address the climate crisis as a health emergency.

This document is a Twitter toolkit produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) to support a social media campaign surrounding the release of the 'HealthyNDCs Scorecard' on July 8, 2021. The toolkit provides instructions and sample posts to encourage users to challenge governments to integrate health into their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ahead of COP 26.

This report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) investigates air quality around 270 schools in Bengaluru, India, between June 2019 and July 2020. Using data from the Healthy Air Coalition's independent monitoring network, the study finds that air quality is generally unhealthy for children throughout the year, with significant spikes in PM2.5 during winter months and school departure times. The report advocates for stricter compliance with health-based air quality standards and the implementation of traffic restrictions around schools to protect children's respiratory and cardiovascular health.

This statement, submitted in April 2021 by the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), the South African Medical Association, and Amref Health Africa, provides recommendations for South Africa's updated draft Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The authors argue that the draft's emission reduction targets are insufficient to protect public health and urge the government to align targets with a 2°C goal. The document emphasizes the critical link between climate action and health outcomes, proposing a 'One Health' approach and a policy roadmap focusing on energy, food and agriculture, and transportation to maximize health and equity co-benefits.

This briefing from the Global Climate and Health Alliance examines the public health threats posed by bushfire smoke in Australia, specifically focusing on the 2019-20 'Black Summer' fires. It highlights the gap between emergency fire response and the lack of preparation for prolonged smoke exposure, while advocating for the integration of Indigenous fire management and a transition away from fossil fuel subsidies to mitigate future climate-driven wildfire risks.

This executive summary from the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) examines the health threats posed by smoke from forest fires and bushfires, which are increasingly driven or fueled by climate change. It details the acute health risks to vulnerable populations, provides case studies from Canada, Australia, and Brazil, and recommends urgent forest protection, health system adaptation, and global climate action to limit warming to 1.5°C.

This executive summary from the Global Climate and Health Alliance examines the health impacts of wildfire smoke, highlighting events in the Amazon, Australia, and Canada. It details how smoke pollutants affect vulnerable populations and calls for immediate forest protection, improved health risk adaptation, and global climate action to limit warming to 1.5°C.

This executive summary from the Global Climate and Health Alliance examines the emerging threat of wildfire smoke and climate change on human health, focusing on case studies from Canada, Australia, and Brazil.

The 2020 report on the WHO-Civil Society Working Group to Advance Action on Climate and Health outlines the group's efforts to integrate health priorities into climate action and COVID-19 recovery. Key achievements include mobilizing health professionals for a 'healthy recovery' and coordinating with the UNFCCC Race to Zero Dialogues to prioritize health at COP26.

A statement by the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) and Global Health and Climate Alliance (GCHA) addressed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, calling for urgent Australian government action on climate change following the devastating bushfires in South East Australia.

A guest opinion piece by Deirdre Duff of MedAct arguing that the fossil fuel industry is a primary obstacle to climate progress and that the UK health community, as highly trusted professionals, can help break this power through fossil fuel divestment.

The Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing, drafted in December 2012 by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, asserts that health must be a central priority in global and national policy responses to climate change. It argues that protecting human health is a primary motivation for climate action and calls for the integration of health impacts and co-benefits into all climate-related decisions, including mitigation and adaptation strategies.

This executive summary details a civil society event held on September 22, 2014, in New York, which brought together global health leaders to discuss the intersection of climate change and public health. The event focused on how health-centric decision-making can drive mitigation efforts across the agriculture, transportation, and energy sectors to improve human well-being and sustainable development.

This resource kit for the 2014 UN Climate Summit in New York frames climate change as a critical public health crisis. It advocates for a global transition to clean energy and active transport to save lives and reduce costs, encourages health organizations to divest from fossil fuels, and highlights England's cross-system health approach as a model for action.

A 2014 civil society statement from the WHO Health and Climate Conference calling for the health sector to declare climate change a global public health emergency and lead a transition away from fossil fuels through a 'divest-invest' framework to protect human health and reduce healthcare costs.

The Durban Declaration on Climate and Health is a statement signed on December 4, 2011, by health professionals from over 30 countries during the UNFCCC's 17th Conference of the Parties. It asserts that climate change is a major global health threat and calls on national delegations to integrate public health objectives into climate agreements and transition away from fossil fuels.

An open letter from the Climate and Health Alliance and partner organisations to WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan, urging the World Health Organisation to prioritise the health impacts of climate change and the goals of the Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing.