Wellcome responds to COP30 conclusion
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Dr Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, says: "I want to thank the Brazilian Presidency, Brazil Ministry of Health and UN Climate Change teams for their courage and determination to make progress at COP30 in extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
"UN Climate Conferences will always involve compromise and incremental progress while every country has to agree a final text.
"I am heartened to see the increased action at COP30 to protect human health as well as the much greater focus on the challenges that climate change brings to vulnerable communities around the world.
"The Belém Health Action Plan and the important decision on the Global Goal on Adaptation will ensure the inclusion of robust, evidence-based action and indicators on health that are vital to protect lives and livelihoods in the years ahead.
"Wellcome and our partners are committed to supporting climate and health solutions where they are most needed and this work continues at pace both outside climate conferences and as we look forward to COP31 next year with Türkiye and Australia. We will build on the important progress made in Brazil and ensure that science continues to deliver the solutions to protect health from climate change - our lives now depend on it."
