International Health Advocacy for Climate Action -- GCHA capacity grant

Climate change presents a unique and urgent threat to planetary health.

Compounded by the COVID19 pandemic, we face a very real risk of losing 50-years of global development, exacerbating health, economic, and social inequities. COP26 will provide a special opportunity for global leaders to set a course for a healthy and green recovery. Informed voices from across the globe are crucial in driving decision makers to deliver ambitious climate action.

Health workers are among society's most trusted and respected professionals, and the health case for climate action is powerful, offering millions of lives saved through reduced non-communicable diseases, health resilience, and adaptation, and fully offsetting the costs of mitigation through health cost savings.

Wellcome Trust funding will enable the Global Climate Health Alliance (GCHA) to amplify the voices of medical and other health professionals globally, including those in low and middle income countries (LMIC) which have been underrepresented in the international climate conversation, on the massive health opportunities of climate action.

We will build capacity, link new voices to media advocacy opportunities, and disseminate Wellcome coalition asks through our global networks, thereby influencing climate action at the national and international level in the run up to COP.