COP29

  • Health at COP29: Workforce crisis meets climate crisis

    Health workers are already being transformed by climate change. COP29 stakeholders can either support this transformation to strengthen health systems, or risk watching the health workforce collapse under mounting pressures. The World Health Organization’s “COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health: Health is the Argument for Climate Action“ highlights the health sector’s role in…

    Health at COP29
  • Critical evidence gaps in the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

    The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change “reveals the health threats of climate change have reached record-breaking levels” and provides “the most up-to-date assessment of the links between health and climate change”. Yet its treatment of experiential knowledge – particularly the direct observations and understanding developed by frontline health workers…

    Critical evidence gaps in the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change