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The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Big Bets Climate Fellowship to Asia-Pacific at AsiaXchange 2024

WHO launches global strategic plan to fight rising dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviral diseases

Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative

CLIMOS convene at ISOPS XI to Address Rising Challenges in Phlebotomine Sandfly Research Amid Climate Change

Why water quality is key to health and the economy

Water quality warnings on our smart phones – UK

Wellcome announces US$25mn for climate and health as part of US$50mn commitment to World Health Organisation

The Crucial Connection Between Climate Change and Mental Health

Climate and health data must be integrated

Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program North – Canada

New African Scientific Progress Award Launched

Cities Are on the Front Line of the ‘Climate-Health Crisis.’ A New Report Provides a Framework for Tackling Its Effects

Alan Dangour on reframing climate change as a health crisis

Social Media & News Data Analysis Shows Urgent Need To Better Communicate the Health Impact of Climate Change

Climate Change is a public health crisis: WHO’s Dr Piukala

How Is Climate Change Promoting Infectious Diseases? A Q&A with Yale’s Dr. James Shepherd

Foundation S at UNGA: Addressing Climate and Health Resilience

Abrupt intensification of northern wildfires due to future permafrost thawing

Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems: Lessons from Sierra Leone and Global Perspectives

WHO at UNGA: Call for urgent, high-level action to address global surge of antimicrobial resistance

UAE invited to join group tackling climate effects on health

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health

Announcement: Program Lead Advancing Leadership

Peru – Minsa brinda atención oportuna a personas afectadas por incendios forestales / Minsa provides care to people affected by forest fires in Peru

FR – Vacancy: Senior Expert in the Health Sector (CERAC)

Vacancy: Senior Health Advisory Consultant – FILE

Towards a weather-ready and climate resilient ASEAN

EU and Canada launch Health Policy Dialogue to advance Health Priorities

Climate change is hard on our lungs. New research aims to help Nova Scotians prepare

A call for solutions-oriented research and policy to protect children from the effects of climate change

Protecting the Arctic and human health: The hidden potential of black carbon

Young Volunteers Champion Health and Climate Awareness in Iraq

UC Davis Health develops a real-time action plan to help patients with lung disease cope with wildfire smoke

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

AMA x DEA Webinar 2024: Climate change and sustainability: leadership and action from Australian doctors

New ILO report highlights key role of social protection in climate change mitigation and adaptation and ensuring a just transition

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s remarks at the second annual session of the UNICEF Executive Board

Connecting dots: Pitt health expert explores intersection of climate change and COVID-19

Q&A: Understanding clean air challenges and solutions

In Pictures – Brazil on Fire: A Fight for Survival

Extreme Weather 101: Your Guide to Staying Prepared and Informed

New Report Sets a Course for Efficient, Climate-Friendly Cooling for All

The positive impact of ULEZ on children’s health and environment

Climate change key driver of extreme drought in water scarce Sicily and Sardinia

Call for event proposals at the COP29 Health Pavilion

New global guidance aims to curb antibiotic pollution from manufacturing

The RISE Grants Challenge: Addressing Gender-based Violence in Climate and Environmental Contexts

Hot, dry and windy conditions that drove devastating Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense due to climate change

Landslide triggered by rainfall made more intense by human-induced climate change, devastating highly vulnerable communities in northern Kerala

Almost half a billion children live in areas experiencing at least twice as many extremely hot days as their grandparents – UNICEF

NOAA issue National Heat Strategy, provide $200K for extreme heat preparedness

IISD Policy Advisors on Climate and Health

Exploring the link between air quality and mood: a new measure of climate sensitivity

Health Department releases first of seven reports on local health impacts of climate change

Study reveals Canadian wildfires are affecting US air quality and raising health concerns

Exploring the health impacts of climate change

Expert Comment: How can we address the nexus of climate change, migration, and infectious diseases?

Co-designing Strategies to Manage Drought-related Risks in Southern South America

Climate and health data website launched

Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Arica: estudio mide brutal impacto de plantas de carbón en enfermedades respiratorias / Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Arica: Study Measures Severe Impact of Coal Plants on Respiratory Diseases

Wildfire Smoke Can Cause Health Problems, Even Death

Las ciudades compactas con mayor población sufren peor calidad del aire y mayores tasas mortalidad / Compact cities with larger populations suffer from worse air quality and higher mortality rates.

PAHO supports emergency response following flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

How One Health can help ease climate-driven health crises

Health-care evacuations are the ‘new normal.’ Here are lessons from Alberta’s last wildfire season

Japan and Senegal join the ATACH, reinforcing their commitment to climate resilient and low carbon sustainable health systems

Fema petitioned to make extreme heat and wildfire smoke major disasters

Climate change, El Niño and infrastructure failures behind massive floods in southern Brazil

Governments must disaster-proof Canada’s hospitals against climate change: experts

Most Surface Ozone Contributing to Premature Mortality in European Countries Is Imported

Digital Health, Primary health care, climate change and antimicrobial resistance, among issues top of the agenda at G20 event in Brazil

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

Increasing April-May rainfall, El Niño and high vulnerability behind deadly flooding in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran

What is the link of Climate Change and Health? / ¿Cuál es la conexión entre el cambio climático y la salud?

The unexpected health risks of flooding

Deadly Floods in Brazil Were Worsened by Climate Change, Study Finds

How are diet, food and climate change connected?

Bonn Climate Meeting Must Continue Momentum to Protect Health from Climate Change

Children’s mental health must be prioritised at the first Children’s Dialogue at the UN Climate Negotiations

Explore the indicators of the Lancet Countdown in Europe 2024

WHO Landmark resolution passed on Health and Climate Change

WHO General Programme of Work 2025–2028 prioritizes climate change and health

April Heat Waves from Gaza to the Philippines Were Made Worse by Climate Change

Vacancy: Project Manager, Climate & Health (CDC Foundation)

Call for public comment and author nominations: Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6)

Five real-world examples of how climate mitigation can benefit health

Transforming health care’s supply chain with a climate excellence standard

Survey: Examining the Landscape of Green Teams Across Canada

Interior Health named recipient of the 2024 Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award

Nominations for “The Face of Change”

UN officials urge swift action to tackle El Niño-induced extreme weather

Climate Week NYC launches new ‘Health’ theme

Climate health risks posed by floods, droughts and water quality call for urgent action

State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

Why climate change is making parasitic diseases harder to predict

From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

The 2024 Europe Report of the Lancet Countdown warns urgent action is needed to protect health from climate change

Midwives: Heroes on the front lines of the global climate crisis

Vacancy – Senior Policy Officer – Interim Centre for Disease Control Group

Vacancy – Policy Officer, Interim Centre for Disease Control Group

Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

Doubled estimate of fatal fungal infections sharpens scientific focus

Climate change risks fuelling antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’

Deforestation opens paths for disease spread from animals to humans

Commonwealth and PATH rally global leaders for One Health approach in climate battle

Mosquitoes found across Scotland as temperatures rise

El Niño-linked rains trigger devastation in Brazil

New NOAA climate action plan emphasizes needs of underserved communities

Climate change highlights risk of malaria resurgence

Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome, and the Gates Foundation Join Forces to Accelerate Global Health Equity and Impact

Call for consultant: Capacity building and technical guidance

Cities are key to a climate-resilient Europe, stronger adaptation targets can boost progress

Making connections for climate change and mental health

Climate x Health Small Grant Awardees

The rise of eco-anxiety: scientists wake up to the mental-health toll of climate change

Health and Climate Change

It’s Not Just You—Seasonal Allergies May Be Getting Worse for Everyone Because of Climate Change

More frequent and extreme weather events pose increasing risks to employee health and business performance

Europe experiences widespread flooding and severe heatwaves in 2023

Earth month giving campaign supports health-centered climate solutions

Fostering dialogue on mental health and climate change

Climate change and health care: Myles Sergeant on how individuals and institutions can help

Billions of Workers Exposed to Health Hazards Due to Climate Change

This Earth Day we consider the impact of climate change on human health

Special Call for Health Outcomes and Climate-Related Disaster Research

IGES and Its Partners Launch Global Project to Cease Open Waste Burning for Mitigation of Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health Risks

Connect To Nature With Your Parx Prescription And Trca

Enhancing Global Health and Well-Being: WHO and the Netherlands strengthen their Partnership

What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?

Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are

European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

La Isla Network’s CEO, Jason Glaser, Discusses Worker Health in Extreme Heat on ADAPT Podcast

Q&A: California Nurse and Environmental Health Pioneer Barbara Sattler on Climate Change as a Medical Emergency

One Thing Most Countries Have in Common: Unsafe Air

‘Urgent and sustainable’ action needed to safeguard health: MJA-Lancet Countdown

Singapore’s launch of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine

Joining forces for humans, animals, environment: One Health

A Spiking Fever

One Health nature conservation project in Central Asia

Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke

Making Invisible Problems Visible

WHO releases guidelines and tools to enhance small water supplies

El cambio climático expande por Europa el virus del Nilo Occidental / Climate change spreads West Nile virus across Europe

Convocado el Observatorio de Salud y Cambio Climático en España / The Health and Climate Change Observatory

Remote First Nations communities face climate change pressures

Launch of The Local Climate Adaptation Tool (LCAT)

WHO launches a Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health

Launch of Global Online Hub by Connecting Climate Minds

LSHTM launches new Climate and Maternal and Child Health (CLIMACH) special interest group

Call for expressions of interest: Regional hubs for climate change & health

Wellcome opens funding call for Climate Impacts Awards

Climate and Health Education survey in Public Health Schools

Brazil Has a Dengue Emergency, Portending a Health Crisis for the Americas

B.C. report says climate change brings health risk, as doctor fears ’colossal harms’

Climate Policy Consultant – Technical support for the LAC regional climate program

CAMS Aerosol Alerts: Atmospheric aerosol data at your fingertips

Global Warming Could Drive Locust Outbreaks into New Regions, Study Warns

Empowering health professionals as leaders in climate action

YSPH Researcher studies climate change’s negative effects on mental health

Chile records its deadliest wildfire in 123 years, may be linked to climate change

Scientists Warn Of Unsuspecting Vehicle For Pathogens Lurking In Earth’s Oceans — Here’s How This Could Impact Human Health

Air Pollution Threatens Millions of Lives. Now the Sources Are Shifting

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change

‘We don’t know what tomorrow will bring’: how climate change is affecting Fijians’ mental health

Wildfires cause huge loss of life in Chile amid heatwaves in South America

Clean air can become a reality for the Global South

WHO calls for technical experts for support and guidance on global monitoring of wastewater

Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

‘Deadliest outbreak ever seen’: climate crisis fuels Bangladesh’s worst dengue epidemic

Global Fever: The Climate-Driven Infectious Diseases Threatening Worldwide Health Systems

WHO Executive Board opens today to discuss priority topics, including health emergencies, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, and universal health

Parking Lots Cause More Heat and Flooding—Here’s How 100 U.S. Cities Rank

Global food production at risk as rising temperatures threaten farmers’ physical ability to work – new study

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat — is climate change making it worse?

Greening the Healthcare Sector in Nepal: lessons learned

Centering Health in a Just Transition – Paving Way for Health-base Climate Actions in Global Climate Negotiations

“Conditions in Europe are starting to become suitable for local transmission of infectious diseases, as we have already seen with Dengue in parts of Southern Europe”

By the end of the century climate change may have claimed over 2 million lives in European cities, but policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions could save most of them

Children are more vulnerable to poor air quality, says Dundee study

New series of educational videos on climate change and health from the ENBEL project

Consultant – Climate Sensitive Health

Mongolia and the One Health Approach

User Perceptions of Drought Indices in North American Climates

The need for green and sustainable healthcare amid climate challenges

Infectious Disease decision-support tools and Alert systems to build climate Resilience to emerging health Threats

Are pollution alerts reducing infection risks?

Job Offer -Technical Officer (Climate Change Adaptation and Health)

Dengue – Global situation

How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally

Digital evidence synthesis tools (DEST) for climate and health: survey

Request for Public Nominations for Authors and Scientific/Technical Inputs for the First National Nature Assessment

Understanding the Lasting Impacts of Climate-Driven Disasters on Children’s Lives

Global health achievements 2023

These are the ways rural Canadians are more vulnerable to climate change

Request for proposals for monitoring climate-resilient WASH

Turning Disaster into Opportunity in Flood-Prone Bangladesh

Longevity Cities Can Improve Human And Planetary Health And Drive Economic Growth

BSC responds to the urgent need to build resilience to climate-related health threats

Enhancing stakeholders’ readiness to address climate change and vector-borne diseases

Climate Change impacts traditional food systems in Kyuquot

Sharing the health benefits of climate solutions can boost public support for change

New hub to gather data on diseases spread by mosquitoes, ticks and other vectors

Expert Q&A: Preventing climate-driven disease outbreaks

Health Implications for December 2023 to February 2024 (CIMH)

Climate solutions are already in our nature

GCF, UNDP and WHO join forces to ramp up climate health support for developing countries

41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health

New Local Climate Adaptation Tool Supports Health and Wellbeing

YSPH study reveals the human health costs of exposure to floods

California wildfires are unleashing dangerous metals from soil, Stanford study shows

Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible

Universal Health Coverage Day 2023

Could restoring riverbanks hold the key to healthier communities?

Leadership for Change: Toward Sustainable Health Systems Course

Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) Program FY2024

Community Change Equitable Resilience Technical Assistance

The Quadripartite launches a guide to support countries implement One Health approach

Assessing drought in a changing climate

Funding opportunities under the Adaptation Fund

THE CLIMATE AND US

It’s not just extreme weather: ‘Climate-sensitive’ diseases are spreading through the US

At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission – The Lancet

Resilience Hub-Registration for our virtual platform is now open!

Reducing air pollution associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

Calling all healthcare professionals! Healthcare Climate Stories at COP28

EPHEMERAL SUBSTANCES; LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES

The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

Air pollution raises risk of type 2 diabetes, says landmark Indian study

How we’re using AI to combat floods, wildfires and extreme heat

Climate change is bad for health but climate services save lives

Launch of the 5th call for short films by the Health for All Film Festival!

WMO Airborne Dust Bulletin highlights present, future hotspots

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Climate change is one of our biggest health threats – humanity faces a staggering toll unless we act