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The Global Climate And Health Alliance

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Global coalition of #health organisations tackling #climatechange to protect and promote public health. We mobilise the global health community and accelerates climate action to improve health for all. #ClimateAction is #Health action.

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💊😶‍🌫️ Pharmaceutical companies are collectively oblivious of their indirect ties to the fossil fuel sector, reveals new article by Scrip - pharmaceutical news publication. Scrip contacted 14 large pharmaceutical companies and the findings are concerning. 👉 insights.citeline.com/scrip/esg/sh...
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Should Pharma Use Its PR Clout Against Climate Damage?
Campaigners are calling on pharma companies and health organizations to refuse to work with PR agencies that also work for fossil fuel companies.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💊😶‍🌫️ Pharmaceutical companies are collectively oblivious of their indirect ties to the fossil fuel sector, reveals new article by Scrip - pharmaceutical news publication. Scrip contacted 14 large pharmaceutical companies and the findings are concerning. 👉 insights.citeline.com/scrip/esg/sh...
insights.citeline.com
Should Pharma Use Its PR Clout Against Climate Damage?
Campaigners are calling on pharma companies and health organizations to refuse to work with PR agencies that also work for fossil fuel companies.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr. María Neira's nomination as WHO Director General candidate is a good news. Her commitment to: 👉 science, 👉 climate & health, 👉 primary prevention, 👉 participation from civil society, 🟰are crucial for next WHO DG's agenda. healthpolicy-watch.news/spain-to-nom...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
⚡#AirPollution at the heart of an economical study! ‼️ It shows that poor air quality could explain up to 25% of the gap in exam performance between students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds & those from more advantaged ones. wid.world/document/who... by @wid.world
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✅🥇You innovate in the health sector, ✅You hire a PR agency to build trust in your mission, 🤷‍♀️ But...that same PR agency also helps cancer-causing fossil fuel cies deny, delay & distract from climate action 🛑That relationship is toxic, ➕Details & solutions: tr.ee/-9txJf_w3P
Poster exposing PR Agencies Playing Both Sides of the Climate and Health Crisis by working for clients in the health sector while also helping cancer-causing fossil fuel companies deny, delay, and distract from climate action.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So galling: Big Oil executives--who for decades have lied, deceived, and in every other way stonewalled legislation that would stop them from profiting by poisoning our bodies and our climate--are now asking for legal immunity for their crimes. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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“They’re pulling out all the stops”: Big Oil’s all-encompassing attacks on climate lawsuits
The fossil fuel industry and its allies are coordinating to end lawsuits that could make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Health orgs are taking a stand against PR and ad agencies that also work for the fossil-fuel industry. @gchalliance.bsky.social highlights the conflict of interest when agencies promoting public health also help fossil fuel companies greenwash their image. buff.ly/t218WVh
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Health Groups Launch Plan to Expose PR Agencies Playing Both Sides of the Climate and Health Crisis
New “Fossil PR Toolkit” reveals how agencies trusted to promote health and wellbeing also work for fossil fuel companies that drive pollution, climate change, and health harms.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✅🥇You innovate in the health sector, ✅You hire a PR agency to build trust in your mission, 🤷‍♀️ But...that same PR agency also helps cancer-causing fossil fuel cies deny, delay & distract from climate action 🛑That relationship is toxic, ➕Details & solutions: tr.ee/-9txJf_w3P
Poster exposing PR Agencies Playing Both Sides of the Climate and Health Crisis by working for clients in the health sector while also helping cancer-causing fossil fuel companies deny, delay, and distract from climate action.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🆕 Report by UNEP & Climate and Clean Air Coalition finds that tackling climate change & air pollution together can deliver major benefits. 👉144 million lives could be saved by 2050 by phasing out fossil fuels + implementing solutions that already exist. Full report here: bit.ly/4xijdji
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Health Community Responds to UNEP Overshoot Report on Exceeding 1.5°C of Global Heating: We must be acting now to get on an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway. climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...
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Health Community Responds to UNEP Overshoot Report on Exceeding 1.5°C of Global Heating
“As the climate is warming faster than the world is reducing emissions or adapting it is imperative that governments take urgent action to collectively reduce emissions that reverse that warming”
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds 🚨 - "El Niño can supercharge global warming but also global warming can supercharge El Niño – that is what we are seeing" #ElNino #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds
‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The bad news: Research continues to reveal the many ways that human health suffers as a consequence of climate change. The good news: By embracing clean energy & ending fossil fuel use, we can limit climate change and usher in an era of health and prosperity. @gchalliance.bsky.social @who.int
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In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving
Researchers are beginning to untangle how the "drought-disease paradox" works.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
⚡ Notre nouveau rapport « Changement climatique, conflits armés et santé publique mondiale » présente les données actuelles sur le lien entre changement climatique et conflits armés, ainsi que ses conséquences pour la santé publique mondiale. climateandhealthalliance.org/resource/cha...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
👏 Impressive improvements on London children's respiratory health after emissions reduced, following introduction of Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez). 👉 "Scientists "stunned" by how quickly young children's lungs began to recover & grow after pollution restrictions" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
⚡ Our new report "Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A Reinforcing Cycle of Harm" is out. 👉 It presents current evidence on the relationship between climate change and armed conflict, and its implications for global public health. climateandhealthalliance.org/resources/re...
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Report: Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A Reinforcing Cycle of Harm
This report presents the current evidence on the intersecting nature of climate change and armed conflict, and its implications for global public health.
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Increasing Indonesia fire emissions & regional smoke transport since 1 August 2026 at the start of a potentially extreme fire season enhanced by El Niño, visualised by #CopernicusAtmosphere Fire Emissions Watch apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🛑 Children are suffering the most from the global climate and conflict crisis. This is an unacceptable failure of global decision-making and twisted priorities. 👉 Find out more in our new report: climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"If we want to save our summers...we need to take climate change seriously and phase out fossil fuels." BC is under a state of emergency with over 20,000 wildfire evacuees, and smoke causing serious health impacts. Governments must do better. Watch: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... @cape-acme.bsky.social
Melissa speaking about the health impacts of wildfire smoke and measures needed to reduce them with Deana Sumanac-Johnson live from Yellowknife, NWT on CBC News
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 07/08/2026
Propaganda posing as actual news isn't limited to pop-up "local news" websites, as @bostonu.bsky.social's Climate Disinformation Initiative makes clear in this report about misleading native advertising campaigns in otherwise legitimate publications, like the @nytimes.com. www.bu.edu/igs/2025/03/...
Image: Picture of Boston University Report page with headline: News Article or Big Oil Ad? As Native Advertisements Mislead Readers on Climate Change, Boston University Experts Identify Interventions

A sneaky form of advertising favored by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying potential solutions.

By Alison Gold
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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is our planet on fossil fuels.
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IPPNW @ippnw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Check out the new report from @gchalliance.bsky.social "Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A reinforcing cycle of harm" with contributions by IPPNW Board member Stella Ziegler!
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The tiny particles from wildfires can lodge in the lungs or make their way to the bloodstream. Years of repeated exposure to wildfire smoke can increase chances of a premature death. www.sciencenews.org/article/what...
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What's to blame for Canada's wildfires?
The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the wildfires and misinformation.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Our newest study shows, yet again, that when health professionals speak up to advocate for clean energy & against fossil fuels, it STRENGTHENS public trust in them. Speak up to protect people’s health & the climate! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social
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Optimizing health professionals' climate advocacy messages
Optimizing health professionals' climate advocacy messages, Fine, Julia, Ettinger, Joshua, Myers, Teresa, Yue, Yuan, Patel, Lisa, Kotcher, John E, Maibach, Edward
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"A new Global Climate and Health Alliance report highlights the dangerous relationship between climate change and armed conflict. It explains how the two are creating a 'reinforcing cycle of harm' to human health." 👉 Full analysis in: www.prabhatkhabar.com/health/clima...
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जलवायु परिवर्तन और युद्ध से स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं पर दोहरा खतरा
नयी रिपोर्ट में खुलासा: जलवायु परिवर्तन और युद्ध मिलकर बढ़ा रहे हैं वैश्विक स्वास्थ्य संकट. जानें कैसे ये एक-दूसरे को कर रहे मजबूत.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
H/T to Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who “has been among the few leaders to argue that the European Union’s green transition should be accelerated accordingly”—in response to the wildfires that are raging across the Eurozone and elsewhere around the world. @gchalliance.bsky.social
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The Guardian view on Europe’s wildfires: politics must catch up with the new reality | Editorial
Editorial: At a time when the quickening pace of global heating has never been clearer, climate policies are being deprioritised
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not normal, not new but getting worse. 👉 Urgent adaptation ➕ Fossil fuel phase out, now! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Weather tracker: Flooding and landslides hit large parts of Asia
Torrential rain has battered Vietnam, southern China and South Korea, leading to multiple deaths
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Health effects of wildfires disasters are as real. After heroic rescue operations, must come the time for political & public support for prevention. 👉Health groups call on gov. for: +Research on health impacts +Preparedness & #ClimateAction climateandhealthalliance.org/resource/the...
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The Limits of Livability – The emerging threat of smoke impacts on health from forest fires and climate change - The Global Climate and Health Alliance
Report including case studies from Australia, Brazil and Canada on the increasing health impacts on people of wildfires.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hey @apha.org, thanks for sharing our research findings. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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Awareness of connection between climate change, health is growing, study finds
Americans are more likely today than they were a decade ago to connect climate change to human health. But a growing share incorrectly believe that cleaner energy sources are harmful to health and pol...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
'Unprecedented': France records 5,764 excess deaths during June-July heatwave period f24.my/C4Mt.BS
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'Unprecedented': France records 5,764 excess deaths during June-July heatwave period
France recorded 5,764 more deaths than the normal rate between June 17 and July 2, health authorities said Wednesday. While authorities said the excess mortality rate was due to "all causes", the peri...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
⚡ Our new report "Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A Reinforcing Cycle of Harm" is out. 👉 It presents current evidence on the relationship between climate change and armed conflict, and its implications for global public health. climateandhealthalliance.org/resources/re...
climateandhealthalliance.org
Report: Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A Reinforcing Cycle of Harm
This report presents the current evidence on the intersecting nature of climate change and armed conflict, and its implications for global public health.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
WHO says heat has claimed more than 200,000 lives across Europe in just the past four years. thediplomaticinsight.com/who-urges-eu...
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WHO Urges Europe to Heat-Proof Hospitals as Deadly Heatwave Grips the Continent
The World Health Organization issued new guidance on Thursday aimed at helping European countries withstand increasingly severe heatwaves, as this summer's
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Often the full death toll of weather extremes isn’t revealed until weeks, months, even years after the event occurs. As temperatures rise & weather extremes worsen, finding better ways to monitor & report climate-related illnesses and deaths will become increasingly urgent grist.org/health/why-t...
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Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths
As temperatures rise and weather extremes worsen, finding better ways to monitor climate-related deaths becomes increasingly urgent.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
New research suggests that exposure to air pollution before and during early pregnancy may contribute to depression later in pregnancy. Yet another reason to stop burning fossil fuels. Let’s go clean (energy)! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @sandrogalea.skystack.xyz
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Preconception and early-pregnancy exposure to ambient air pollution and trajectories of depressive symptoms during pregnancy - Environmental Health
Background Prenatal depression shows diverse patterns in severity and progression. While air pollution has been linked to depression risk, its impact on the course of prenatal depression remains under...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
India: Extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in one day. A five-day #heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the paper published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...
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Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study
Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As governments double down on carbon capture, @propublica.org explains why CCS is a false solution: 💰 it’s hugely expensive 📉 it doesn’t work at scale 🛢 it helps coal, oil and gas keep going instead of winding them down.
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound…
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
3 years later, the United States (and every other nation) still undercounts climate-driven deaths. This is even more true of fossil fuel-related (air pollution + other) deaths. @zteirstein.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths
As temperatures rise and weather extremes worsen, finding better ways to monitor climate-related deaths becomes increasingly urgent.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Europe #Heatwave: "Paris hospitals, like many across France, are full, authorities said, with some patients being treated in corridors" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Paris bans drinking alcohol in public as hospitals hit heatwave breaking point
City’s Pride march also postponed as police chief says health and emergency services have been overwhelmed
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#SB64: Civil Society Calls for Tripling of #AdaptationFinance. 👉 “Without it, life saving action to build resilience in health sector & in health determining sectors (water, sanitation, disaster planning & food systems) will be impossible" climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says
Almost every child, including those from high-income countries, is now exposed to at least one hazard
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
⁉️"Why do tuberculosis and malaria inspire global action while millions of deaths from pollution and toxic chemicals are accepted as the cost of modern life?" 👉 A great article about "the preventable deaths we have learned to tolerate" blanphear.substack.com/p/the-blind-...
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The Blind Spots in Modern Epidemiology
Why do tuberculosis and malaria inspire global action while millions of deaths from pollution and toxic chemicals are accepted as the cost of modern life?
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Important new research shows climate policy “should move away from the traditional overemphasis on the economic dimension of climate mitigation strategies and consider a multidimensional perspective on quality of life”—including and perhaps especially health benefits. @gchalliance.bsky.social
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The undervalued quality-of-life benefits of demand-side energy and climate strategies - Communications Sustainability
Demand-side strategies consistently rank higher across multiple quality of life dimensions than supply-side options according to a multi-country study combining energy system modelling with public per...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Fossil-fuel interests are [terrified] of extreme event attribution science. They are acutely aware this research could land them in court. And losing those cases would leave them legally liable for billions of dollars in climate damages" #climatecrisis
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
US: "We found that the data centers that already exist affect nearby residents and the nation as a whole in five main areas: air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs." theconversation.com/5-ways-data-... Neha Gour, @maibached.bsky.social & Luis Ortiz
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5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 10/06/2026
China’s construction of more than 700 Belt and Road projects across 105 countries packs a sizable carbon footprint. The largest source of emissions: Chinese steel.
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Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost - Inside Climate News
Strong regulations and incentives are needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese manufacturing, two new studies conclude.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#SB64 Health groups urge tripling adaptation finance to $120 billion by 2035 - Global Climate and Health Alliance presses rich nations at SB64 for more grant-based adaptation funds and align fossil fuel phase-out plans with a 1.5°C pathway www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Bonn Climate Conference 2026: Health groups urge tripling adaptation finance to $120 billion by 2035
Health advocates have urged governments at the Bonn climate talks to triple public, grant-based adaptation finance to at least $120 billion by 2035, warning tha
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#SB64 "Concern is growing that these climate talks are becoming increasingly exclusive and inaccessible – particularly for those living in developing countries, who are the most affected by climate change." www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/w...
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UN climate conference kicks off in Bonn - but not everybody is invited
Climate activists and members of the press are facing unprecedented barriers to one of the most important environmental conferences of the year.
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“Over the next fortnight in Bonn #SB64, governments must identify clear routes to triple public, grant-based adaptation finance to at least $120 billion by 2035,” said @jessbeagley.bsky.social www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/cl...
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Bonn Climate Conference 2026: Health groups urge tripling adaptation finance to $120 billion by 2035
Health advocates have urged governments at the Bonn climate talks to triple public, grant-based adaptation finance to at least $120 billion by 2035, warning tha
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Health experts tell world leaders adaptation funding must increase significantly ($120bn needed) to help countries strengthen health systems, improve access to clean water & sanitation, bolster food security & prepare for climate-related disasters. punchng.com/triple-clima...
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are delighted to welcome 10 new members to the GCHA community of over 250 organisations!  Our strength comes from the collective voice of our members, and we look forward to working together to advance stronger climate and health action. Please join us in welcoming our new members! With:
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