The global health community at international climate change negotiations

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ID21881564
AuthorsKim Robin van Daalen (0000-0001-6955-9708, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Nanine Wyma (0009-0007-9366-8817, North-West University), Johanna Schauer-Berg (0009-0005-1325-5939, Paracelsus Medical University), Iris Martine Blom (0000-0002-1294-7408, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Juliette Mattijsen (0000-0002-1002-6971, Erasmus MC), Razan Othman (0000-0001-8976-5744, National Ribat University), Mohamed Eissa (0000-0002-8386-6736, Alexandria University), Robbie M Parks (0000-0002-7916-1717, Columbia University), Arthur Wyns (0000-0003-1142-8267, The University of Melbourne), Ahmed Taha Aboushady (0000-0002-8245-6591, Brigham and Women's Hospital), Muha Hassan (0000-0002-2209-0858, Wye Valley NHS Trust), Tarek Ezzine (0000-0003-3914-8152, Tunis University), Salman Ashraf Khan (0009-0008-3804-5489, Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals), Menna-Allah Elsayed Zayed (0009-0001-7350-0458, International Pharmaceutical Federation), Sarah Neggazi (0009-0000-6447-4262, International Pharmaceutical Federation), Lujain Alqodmani (0009-0005-3515-3052, World Medical Association, Ferney-Voltaire, France), Rachel Lowe (0000-0003-3939-7343, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
Year2024
Volume9
Issue4
Pagese015292
Publication date2024-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMJ Global Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908
PublisherBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015292
PMID38637120
OpenAlexW4394912071
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

BOX Health played a central role in the recent Conference of Parties 28 (COP28): witnessing the first official ‘Health Day’, the first COP climate-health ministerial, endorsements of a declaration on climate change and health by 149 countries, the highest number of climate and health-related side-events, and funding commitments of US$1 billion dedicated to climate and health. In this first-ever quantitative analysis of the health community’s attendance at UN climate conferences between 1995 and 2023, we show a steady increase in absolute attendance of health actors, with the highest attendance of health actors at COP28 (n=1612) compared with the lowest attendance at COP1 (n=17). Yet, the percentage of health delegates remained largely constant over time in relation to the overall number of attendees. Although a small number of Ministers of Health attended individual COPs between 1995 and 2022, COP28 was attended by approximately the same number of Health Ministers (n=52) as in all previous COPs combined (n=53). While parties and representatives of the UN and its Specialised Bodies increasingly embrace the health narrative, crucial climate change commitments continue to lag. Without fundamental social change, without phasing out fossil fuels, and without climate justice, the health narrative for climate change cannot bring what it promises: health for all

Climate change · Global health · International community · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Public health · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Global Health Care Issues · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nursing · Oceanography

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