Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

COP30: A massive disappointment for people’s and public health, while Canada is backsliding.  - CAPE Carney Must Treat the Environmental Crisis as the Health Crisis It Is Belém | Brazil |November 22, 2025 – COP30 ended on a massively disappointing note with no explicit reference to fossil fuels in th...

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8/ CAPE will continue to hold Canada accountable: real ambition, real finance, and real plans are needed to phase out fossil fuels and defend public health.

#ClimateAction #HealthJustice #COP30 #Canada

7/ One bright spot: Canada joined the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, tackling climate disinformation—a necessary step to protect public health.

6/ Dr. @samanthagreen.bsky.social , CAPE President-Elect:
"Every delay in transitioning away from fossil fuels has real human costs. Without a just transition, health inequities worsen, and health systems are overwhelmed by heat illness, extreme weather injuries, and poor air quality."

5/ Canada’s international leadership is faltering: major LNG projects announced, a potential new oil pipeline, absent during final negotiations, and no clear timelines on methane regulation.

4/ Fossil fuels are the root driver of this crisis, producing air pollution that kills 8+ million people yearly. 2024 was the hottest year on record; 2023 the second hottest. 2025 is on track to break records too.

3/ Dr. @drmelissalem.bsky.social, CAPE President:
"Communities facing fires, floods, and toxic pollution don’t need empty roadmaps. They need real commitments grounded in science & justice to phase out the fossil fuels driving these climate disasters."

2/ Throughout #COP30, CAPE called for a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, strengthen health systems, and accelerate clean energy investments, aligned with the best climate & health science.

#COP30 - CAPE Closing Statement at #COP30

1/ COP30 ended on a massively disappointing note: no explicit reference to fossil fuels in the almost final text, and no clarity on how to move away from them. Canada is backsliding while health impacts worsen. #ClimateHealth #FossilFree

Carney’s calamitous course causes consternation at climate summit Canada arrived at COP30 with empty hands, expressly moving backwards on almost every climate policy we’ve put in place since Paris.

Global civil society took note, and handed Canada a “Fossil of the Day.” A signal that our credibility is slipping just as climate disasters escalate. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/20/o...

Methane rules? Weakening. EV mandate? Paused. Oil & gas emissions cap? On the chopping block. New LNG plants? Back in fashion. Canada can still choose a better path. But it starts with honesty, accountability, and climate policy aligned with science, not petrostate logic.

#COP30 - Canada is showing up with… well, not much. And Dr. @jvipondmd.bsky.social isn’t mincing words about it. In his new opinion piece, he outlines how a country once welcomed back at COP21 is now rolling back nearly every climate policy we’ve built since Paris.

@jvipondmd.bsky.social , Leah Temper, Nola Poirier, and @robb-barnes.bsky.social also joined the event. Thanks to @artivistnet.bsky.social and @canadianlung.bsky.social for partnering with us on this action; to Baba Brinkman for his performance; and Bianka Csenki for photos.

@drmelissalem.bsky.social, @courtghoward.bsky.social, @samanthagreen.bsky.social and Mili Roy shared frontline experiences caring for patients and communities whose wellbeing has been harmed by the fossil fuel industry in #canada, calling on #cdnpoli to stop expanding fossil fuels.

YouTube video by CAPE | ACME CAPE physicians unveil giant lungs to demand fossil fuel phaseout at COP30

"The lungs of the world are in your hands!" That was our message for #COP30 negotiators this week. Standing in front of a giant pair of lungs, health professionals from around the world joined our call to phase out #fossilfuels to protect health and save lives.
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COP30: Global Health Leaders Call for a Life-Saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels - CAPE Belém, Brazil I November 18, 2025  – At COP30, physicians, nurses, and health and medical students representing millions of health workers worldwide issued an urgent call for countries to support a gl...

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#COP30 - CAPE is now live at the 'Global Health Leaders Call for a Life-Saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels' press conference with @gchalliance.bsky.social @ifmsa.bsky.social l and the @International Council of Nurses (ICN). Livestream : unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_108722...

Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels. They say clean energy isn’t just a climate issue, it’s a public healt...

CAPE physicians danced to demand a fossil fuel phaseout and remind #COP30 negotiators that the lungs of the world are in their hands. Thanks to Baba Brinkman for the rap and @canadianlung.bsky.social and @artivistnet.bsky.social for partnering with us.
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#COP30 Press Conference: Join us today, at 3:30 EST (Ottawa)/ 5:30 UTC (Belém), alongside the Global Climate and Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social the International Federation of Medical Students Associations
@ifmsa.bsky.social & the International Council of Nurses

Health professionals to unveil giant ‘lungs’ installation at COP30 to demand fossil fuel phase-out - CAPE Media Advisory: Health professionals to unveil giant ‘lungs’ installation at COP30 to demand fossil fuel phase-out

📸 Photos + footage will be shared on CAPE’s channels shortly after the action. Find our full advisory here : cape.ca/press_releas...

“A fossil fuel phase-out will save millions of lives. These lungs are a striking reminder of what’s at stake: clean air, a safe climate, and our collective health.” Spokespeople available in English, French, and Spanish immediately after the action.

🗓 Monday, Nov 17
🕐 12:30 PM UTC / 10:30 AM EST
📍 Action location 1 (next to Meeting Room 1, Area D) @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social @info.radio-canada.ca @cbcnews.ca @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy @citytvnewsbd.bsky.social

🎤 Featuring:
• Patricio Saravi (UDAPT)
• Health professionals & CAPE representatives
• Closing performance by Baba Brinkman

Fossil fuel pollution causes 1 in 5 deaths worldwide.
The lungs also symbolize the Amazon : the “lungs of the Earth” threatened by extraction and climate change. Here's a sneak peak of what that means!

Health professionals from CAPE and the @artivistnet.bsky.social Artvist Network will reveal a massive “The Lungs of the Earth” installation illustrating the deadly health impacts of fossil fuels.

📣 #COP30 - MEDIA ADVISORY - Tomorrow, November 17: Health professionals to unveil GIANT LUNGS installation calling for a fossil fuel phase-out.

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Preventing #climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies" -- George Monbiot, @theguardian.com

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Fossil fuel lobbyists flood COP30 climate talks in Brazil, with largest ever attendance share - CAPE With one in every 25 COP30 attendees a fossil fuel lobbyist, massive industry presence intensifies calls to protect climate negotiations from corporate capture. Bélem I Brazil – 14th November 2025: Ne...

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“Physicians have a long history of safeguarding health policy from commercial influence. As doctors, we kicked Big Tobacco out of health negotiations. Now to break the thirty year climate deadlock we need to kick big polluters out of climate COPs. (...) ” Dr. Samantha Green.