Reflections from COP28: Resisting healthwashing in climate change negotiations

Amiteshwar Singh; Tarek Ezzine; Renzo R Guinto; Sophie Gepp; Robbie M Parks; Meelan Thondoo; Poorvaprabha Patil; Kim R van Daalen

doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0003076

Reflections from COP28: Resisting healthwashing in climate change negotiations

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Mar 28;4(3):e0003076. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003076. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Amiteshwar Singh^{1

2

3}, Tarek Ezzine⁴, Renzo R Guinto^{5

6}, Sophie Gepp⁷, Robbie M Parks⁸, Meelan Thondoo^{9

10}, Poorvaprabha Patil^{3

11}, Kim R van Daalen^{12

13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
² Health for a Green New Deal, London, United Kingdom.
³ Youth Climate and Health Network, Richmond, California, United States of America.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁵ SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Planetary and Global Health Program, St. Luke's Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, Quezon City, Philippines.
⁷ Centre for Planetary Health Policy, Berlin, Germany.
⁸ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.
⁹ MRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
¹² Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.
¹³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Grants and funding

This opinion did not receive specific funding. Robbie M. Parks was funded by NIH Grant R00 ES033742 for his academic work during the time that this opinion was written.