From Analysis to Action – Climate change litigation: a guide for PH professionals was a collaborative effort among 11 organizations including GNAPH as well as two of its comprising members – ASPPH and ASPHER – and offers extensive insight into the role of public health experts and scientists required to provide evidence in court pertaining to climate litigation. Written not only for the core public health workforce but also the wider community of health professionals and environmental advocates engaged in climate change litigation, this guide is applicable across differing legal systems and jurisdictions.
Specifically, the guide:
- Explains the phenomenon of climate change litigation for public health practitioners and provides an overview of key developments;
- Identifies how the skills required to deliver compelling written and oral scientific evidence of human harms in climate change litigation can be grounded in public health competencies;
- Offers insights and lessons learned from prior climate change litigation, based all or in part on evidence of human harms.
This report, launched at the EUPHA Conference in Dublin in November 2023, has received significant global interest from public health colleagues and organizations globally. With the goal of widely disseminating this valuable work and further advancing the agenda of building ethical legal competence and capacity of public health professionals, GNAPH is proud to share this report and encourages engagement in related upcoming activities.