Acción gubernamental

Hacia una atención en salud de cero emisiones y resiliente al clima

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G20 Sherpa, Amitabh Kant speaking at the G20 Health Working Group Side Event on Climate and Health
G20 Sherpa, Amitabh Kant speaking at the G20 Health Working Group side event on Climate and Health. Photo: Health Care Without Harm.

In 2023, Health Care Without Harm supported the Asian Development Bank in developing a set of principles and organizing a side event at the G20 Health Working Group meeting in the state of Goa, India, on climate and health to foster climate resilient health development, low-carbon health systems, decarbonized supply chains, finance for climate and health, and One Health. The G20 Ministers of Health subsequently reflected these principles in their declaration as did the G20 Heads of State in the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration (para 28iii). This was the first time in history that a group of heads of state has endorsed health care climate action and their commitment covered 75% of global health care climate emissions.

In 2024 Health Care Without Harm has continued to work with the Asian Development Bank to support Brazil’s G20 presidency as it prioritizes climate in the Health Working Group and prepares for COP30.

In addition to these collaborations, Health Care Without Harm works to bring the health voice to a number of international fora and negotiations related to climate and health. These include the World Health Assembly, which recently passed a resolution on climate and health, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where a health declaration received support from 150 health ministries during COP28, the intergovernmental negotiations towards the adoption of an International Plastics Treaty, and the initiative to negotiate and adopt a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

Salud sin Daño y sus socios en todo el mundo también trabajan con gobiernos nacionales, subnacionales y con instituciones de salud en todos los continentes para desarrollar marcos de políticas y planes de implementación para sistemas de salud con bajas emisiones de carbono y resilientes al clima. La siguiente es una muestra representativa de algunas de nuestras iniciativas.