On October 29, 2025, Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) formally made its endorsement of the “Negotiating to Protect Health and Lives: Recommendations for COP30” document. Produced in consultation with the global health and climate community and convened by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), this document contains comprehensive set of recommendations for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). It calls upon the parties involved to consider health issues in all UNFCCC negotiations.

COP30 is being held in Belém, Brazil, from November 10-21, 2025. As the first COP to take place in the Amazon region, COP30 is expected to highlight the vital interconnection between ecosystem preservation, Indigenous leadership, and human well-being. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the intrinsic link between climate and health within UNFCCC processes. Initiatives such as the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH) and commitments from over 120 countries to strengthen climate-resilient and sustainable health systems have further elevated health on the global climate agenda. Building on this momentum, COP30 presents a critical opportunity to consolidate and scale up these efforts, ensuring that health remains central to climate negotiations and implementation.

The recommendations stress that climate change is poised to undermine decades of progress in global health and development while exacerbating existing inequities. Ambitious climate decision-making is deemed vital to protect and promote human physical and mental health, prevent ecosystem degradation, and foster thriving societies and productive economies. By embedding health across negotiations, COP30 can leverage health as a unifying shared goal that drives ambitious outcomes, connecting the climate crisis directly to people’s everyday lives.
The document presents targeted recommendations across critical climate negotiation areas, namely:

• Adaptation
• Mitigation
• Just Transition
• Loss and Damage
• Finance
• Agriculture
• Gender
• Conflict of Interest

HGPI’s Planetary Health Project, Antimicrobial Resistance Project, and Mental Health Project provided feedback during the consultation process, reinforcing key aspects of the recommendations across several areas, such ecosystem degradation as a contributory factor to antimicrobial resistance, inclusivity and equity across minorities, inclusion of physical and mental health indicators, and the need to prioritize the most climate-vulnerable groups in climate financing.

HGPI recognizes that translating the growing momentum of integrating health into climate action into collective action requires sustained efforts. We remain committed to supporting COP30 initiatives alongside the global climate and health community in order to achieve tangible outcomes that protect the health and well-being of populations.

The full text of the COP30 Health Community Recommendations is available at the GCHA website.