COP30 Delivers Incremental Climate Action, But Lack Of Implementation Support Jeopardises Health

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " Just Transition In the final text of the just transition work programme, governments recognised the importance of protecting the human right to health and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in just transitions, as well as the links between renewable energy and clean cooking.
58% : We are calling for urgent investment in resilient health systems and a strong health workforce, and we are calling for a rapid and just phase out of fossil fuels to protect the health of people and the planet.
56% : The 80 countries that expressed support for a fossil fuel phase out plan can lead by example, particularly wealthy developed countries that have the most resources to invest.
56% : Nurses came into this COP with a strong call to move from discussions to agreement on a roadmap for implementation and adequate finance to support a phase out of fossil fuels - centering health and grounded in equity and justice.
53% : During plenary on November 22, Brazil's COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago said he would create two roadmaps, one on halting and reversing deforestation, and one on transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just orderly and equitable manner.
52% : " Fossil Fuel Phase Out - What Next?
51% : "Without phasing out fossil fuels - the primary driver of climate change - impacts will continue to grow, we will experience dangerous and irreversible tipping points in critical earth systems; communities, as well as healthcare systems, will quickly reach the limits of their ability to adapt.
50% : "On the two most decisive issues for people's health addressed at this COP, adaptation finance to enable developing countries to better protect people's lives and health in the face of climate impacts; and phasing out fossil fuels to prevent accelerating climate change from reaching unlivable levels, governments gave us mixed progress on finance, but while the COP president signalled a future roadmap on ending the fossil fuel era, there is a lack of clarity on what this will look like".
50% : Without global unity, a clear way to a fossil fuel phase out and climate justice, it is our patients, especially the most vulnerable, who will suffer the most.
48% : Meanwhile, Colombia sought to propose inclusion of language in the mitigation decision that further work on just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels would be undertaken in 2026, but this was not incorporated into the text.
48% : " Katie Huffling, Executive Director the the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, a member of the GCHA Board of Directors: "For far too long climate negotiations have failed to deliver what the scale of the climate crisis requires - an end to our dependence on fossil fuels.
43% : Belém, 22 November 2025:- As the COP 30 climate summit closed today, the Global Climate and Health Alliance bemoaned governments' failure to deliver a genuinely transformative COP, including the lack of agreed progress on the phaseout of fossil fuels, while noting some areas of progress - such as institutional architecture to support just transitions and increased adaptation finance, and an announcement from the COP president regarding a future roadmap for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
43% : Yet it also exposed the gaps we must confront: the political will to accelerate a just transition away from fossil fuels and inadequate financing to protect the most vulnerable.
41% : Quotes from GCHA member organizations and Board Members Howard Catton, CEO, International Council of Nurses: "Nurses carry the memories of patients whose suffering is tied to fossil fuels.
39% : "Failure by governments at COP30 to agree to a phase out of fossil fuels not only increases the risk to people from climate impacts, but ensures that all countries will increasingly become overwhelmed", continued Miller.
34% : Phasing out use and extraction of fossil fuels will benefit their own people's health and reduce the drain on health systems and public coffers from the health harms of fossil fuels.
33% : If we do not succeed in phasing out fossil fuels we will see healthcare systems collapse and widespread suffering.

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