The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA77) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 May – 1 June 2024. The theme of this year’s Health Assembly was: All for Health, Health for All.
WHA77 set new ambitions for the Member States and the WHO in the area of climate and health by the adoption of a dedicated Resolution on climate change and health, as well as the WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of work for the period 2025-2028 (GPW14) with the response to climate change being selected as one of its six key strategic objectives.
Several partner organizations hosted side events on climate change and health on the margin of WHA77. More details are available on the UN Foundation official webpage providing a full calendar of WHA side events, and here.
The WHA77 Strategic Roundtable “Climate change and health: a global vision for joint action”, held on June 1, can be followed here. Additional statements from the floor can be accessed here.
Special message from the UN climate change high-level champion for COP29, Ms Nigar Arpadarai: