Nearly 4.1 billion people, roughly half the planet’s population, experienced unusually hot temperatures between June and August, in what was Earth’s hottest season on record.
Earth exceeds safe limits: First Planetary Health Check issues red alert
The launch of the Planetary Health Check is based on the publication of the inaugural Planetary Health Check Report, which represents a crucial step in collective efforts to understand and protect the stability and resilience of Earth. The report will be published annually in recognition of the importance of regular updates on Earth’s health, representing a significant advancement in providing consistent insights for stakeholders globally.
Can ‘Pact for the Future’ Really Help Reinvigorate UN’s Sustainable Development Pathway?
Over 130 United Nations member states convened in New York City Sunday and Monday for a long-anticipated Summit of the Future that aimed to press the “reset button” on stalled global development goals and polarized geopolitical debate.
Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows
Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems.
NIH-Funded Climate and Health Center Launches at Columbia
A new center called Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change (CHART) aims to build research capacity and catalyze and coordinate climate and health research and evidence-based solutions on climate change across Columbia University. CHART, which is funded by a three-year $4.2 million grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), will also promote climate justice through community engagement.
Consultation Response: Health Community Input on the WHO COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health
Our comments focus on expanding the discussion to include food systems beyond the current focus on cities, broadening the perspective on urban environmental health, reassessing key energy sources within the climate-health nexus, and centering considerations on health equity across the report, with energy poverty as a key area for action.
In this triple COP year, leaders must align efforts to ensure planetary health
The world’s population is on track to reaching 10 billion by 2050, just as the planetary systems that sustain life on Earth are being pushed to their limits — and with them, our ability to provide food and water and to prevent large-scale displacements, rippling economic shocks and conflict.
Why a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is the Only Way to Protect Future Generations
Earlier this year, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan stood up at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin and told ministers, fossil fuels are a “gift from the gods.” Having oil and gas deposits is “not our fault” he went on, laying out further plans to increase natural gas production by more than a third.
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