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NOAA awards $700,000 to communities, academia for extreme heat planning, research

The climate science behind the California wildfires

Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars

In California Wildfires, Climate and Health Collide

Global Fund Unveils Pioneering Climate and Health Fund to Accelerate Global Action

Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change

Eleven Climate, Environment and Health Projects Recommended for Funding!

NIH publishes Climate Change and Health Initiative Annual Report

What Makes Urban Wildfire Smoke So Toxic

These collaborations are already tackling climate-driven health risks but more can be done to find solutions

Climate and the IFRC’s 2025 Global Plan

Driving the Dialogue on Climate Change and Health at the 11th Tanzania Health Summit

The top global health stories from 2024

IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate

Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity

Climate Change and Clean Air Policies Bring Major Health Benefits to Children and Adults

U.S Announces Nearly $1.6 Billion in Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants

Webinar: Contribute to the development of new Lancet Countdown Europe indicators

New PATH Initiative to Integrate Global Climate and Health Data

Registration and Financial Assistance for the 1st GHHIN Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum

Challenging future projected for children in 2050 in world transformed by extreme climate crises, population shifts, and tech disparities

G20 Health approves ministerial declaration in support of global health and international cooperation

Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040

New policy from health organization addresses concerning stressor on human health: ‘Must take immediate and decisive action’

MSF and the Lancet Countdown joint brief 2024

The 2024 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown

Announcement of COP29 Health Initiatives

Faculty Positions in Climate and Population Health Science at Duke University

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

Why water quality is key to health and the economy

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

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

Abrupt intensification of northern wildfires due to future permafrost thawing

UAE invited to join group tackling climate effects on health

Announcement: Program Lead Advancing Leadership

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

Vacancy: Senior Health Advisory Consultant – FILE

Towards a weather-ready and climate resilient ASEAN

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

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

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

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

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

Call for event proposals at the COP29 Health Pavilion

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

IISD Policy Advisors on Climate and Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How are diet, food and climate change connected?

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

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

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

Nominations for “The Face of Change”

Climate Week NYC launches new ‘Health’ theme

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

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

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

New NOAA climate action plan emphasizes needs of underserved communities

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

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

Climate x Health Small Grant Awardees

Health and Climate Change

Earth month giving campaign supports health-centered climate solutions

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

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

European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

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

Wellcome opens funding call for Climate Impacts Awards

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

Clean air can become a reality for the Global South

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

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

Consultant – Climate Sensitive Health

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

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

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

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

Could restoring riverbanks hold the key to healthier communities?

Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) Program FY2024

Community Change Equitable Resilience Technical Assistance

Funding opportunities under the Adaptation Fund

THE CLIMATE AND 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

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

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

€13.5 billion in new Horizon Europe funding for research and innovation

WHO and WMO Launch Global Knowledge Platform for Climate and Health