Planetary health at the UNFCCC

Abstract

The COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health was a landmark in the effort to integrate health considerations into the global climate agenda, recognizing the profound and growing impact of climate change on human health and well-being. However, the question remains what the exact effect and strength of this text is. Coming from a planetary health perspective, this research consists of a thourough textual analysis, which looks at the integration of planetary health principles in this texts and creates a scope of the potential impact of this text by looking at and translating the language that is used.