Will COP30 Be Turning Point We Need? Health Community Urges Delegates To Make Li...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : As the COP 30 climate summit opens in Brazil, the health community is calling on all governments, led by developed countries, to honor responsibilities to support adaptation and climate action in developing countries, and to lead the transition away from fossil fuels i/n order to deliver clean air, saved lives, strong health systems, and sustainable economies.
53% : The recent Global Climate and Health Alliance report, Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition, provides the most comprehensive global overview yet of the health harms caused by fossil fuels.
39% : The report examines impacts across the entire fossil fuel life cycle, from extraction to waste, and throughout the human life course, from pregnancy to old age "When COP30 delegates leave Belém, success will be measured by the courage governments have demonstrated to act on what is already known: that fossil fuels are destroying people's health from cradle to grave; and that delaying investment in adaptation and climate action will result in increasingly insurmountable impacts and costs", concluded Miller.

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