The event “The Health Argument for Climate Action” will highlight the crucial interconnection between health and climate change, this shared impact on other sectors, as well as the health co-benefits of climate and health action.
The climate crisis is a health crisis. The same human activities destabilizing the Earth’s climate also contribute directly to poor health. A lack of progress in reducing emissions and building adaptation threatens both human lives and the viability of national health systems.
This event will provide an opportunity to report back on the key decisions made since COP28, to outline the health-related initiatives planned at COP29 and aspirations for COP30, as well as to call for raising ambition, accelerating concrete action and mobilizing finance for health.
It will showcase Member States’ solutions for building climate resilience through a health centered approach and how this is an answer for many challenges: pandemic preparedness, universal health coverage, non-communicable disease, maternal health, workforce advancements, AMR and other core priorities.
It will illustrate how climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience are essential to our economic growth, national security and controlling migration, while ensuring alignment across the SDGs and other worthy initiatives.