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GCHA Report 2025
September 26 , 2025
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- The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) released a report titled "Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition."
- The report warns that fossil fuels cause a public health emergency, affecting humans from the womb to old age.
- It highlights health impacts in India’s coal belt, including childhood asthma, tuberculosis, and congenital disorders linked to pollution.
- Exposure to fossil fuel pollutants raises risks of miscarriage, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological disorders across all age groups.
- Toxic chemicals from fossil fuel operations persist in the environment for decades, causing intergenerational health damage.
- Marginalized communities near mines and refineries suffer disproportionately from disease, poverty, and displacement.
- The report calls for urgent policy changes, including ending new fossil fuel projects and enforcing the polluter pays principle.
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