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STORY: BELEM / COP30 HEALTH ACTION PLAN
TRT: 01:58
SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC)
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06, 13 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
06 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Aerial shot, exterior, COP30 venue
13 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“Across the world, people are living the daily reality that the climate crisis is also a public health crisis. Rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and storms are claiming lives, fuelling diseases and malnutrition and placing immense pressure on health systems. According to the latest Lancet Countdown Report, heat related deaths have surged 23 percent since the 1990s.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“Humanity can only win this global climate fight if we connect stronger climate actions to people's top priorities in their daily lives. And there are few higher priorities, there are few higher priorities than our health, which makes this work at the climate health nexus so critical.”
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The climate crisis is a health crisis for individuals, but also for health systems. Strong health systems are essential for protecting people against the health impacts of climate change.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“For decades, WHO has been calling for action to adapt health systems and build resilience to climate change. The Belem Health Action Plan is how we can do that. As secretariat for the Belem Health Action Plan, WHO will ensure measurable outcomes through the WHO Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health.”
11. Wide shot, dais, delegates applause
The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today (13 Nov) told delegates at COP30 in Belém, Brazil that “the climate crisis is a health crisis for individuals, but also for health systems” and said the Belém Health Action Plan is how health systems can “build resilience to climate change.”
Opening the Health and Climate Ministerial Meeting in Belém, the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, said, “across the world, people are living the daily reality that the climate crisis is also a public health crisis.”
Stiell said, “rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and storms are claiming lives, fuelling diseases and malnutrition and placing immense pressure on health systems,” and noted that “heat related deaths have surged 23 percent since the 1990s.”
He said, “humanity can only win this global climate fight if we connect stronger climate actions to people's top priorities in their daily lives,” adding that “there are few higher priorities than our health, which makes this work at the climate health nexus so critical.”
Led by the Government of Brazil and the WHO, the Belém Health Action Plan integrates adaptation, equity, and climate justice, the three pillars of a resilient society.
Dr. Tedros, in a prerecorded message to the Ministerial Meeting, said, “strong health systems are essential for protecting people against the health impacts of climate change.”
He said, “as secretariat for the Belém Health Action Plan, WHO will ensure measurable outcomes through the WHO Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health.”
The Belém Health Action Plan aims to strengthen the health sector’s adaptation and resilience to climate change by enhancing surveillance and monitoring, building capacities, promoting evidence
based and participatory policies, and fostering innovation and sustainable production, while
recognizing diverse national contexts and the co-benefits for health and mitigation.
