As COP30 takes place in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025, we recognise its importance to our health and wellbeing, especially for our women and children. All over the world, women and children are the most vulnerable to the challenges of climate change.
At #COP30, there’s a push for a new Gender Action Plan (GAP), which aims at integrating gender-responsive climate finance, policy, and technology. Recognizing the power of women as agents of resilience and innovation, the COP30 Action Agenda calls for female leadership, social justice, and structural reforms.
Children and young people are not left out. The #COP30 has called for child-responsive and youth-responsive climate policies that include young people in decision-making.
Also, climate change takes a toll on our mental health, especially with trauma from extreme weather, displacement, and food insecurity. At the summit, there’ll be the launch of The Belém Health Action Plan, with the aim to build climate-resilient health systems that integrate mental health care.
Climate health is human health. We at Fikun Trust are remotely on the sidelines of #COP30 advocating to hold global leaders accountable for their promises. We are monitoring to ensure good stewardship of our common resources.
Sources: UNFCCC | COP30 Presidency | UNFPA | GIWPS | Plan International | WHO.
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