Climate change is rapidly worsening health risks – driving food and water insecurity, disrupting access to healthcare, worsening air pollution, and increasing the threat of heat stress and infectious diseases. While climate services can help provide intelligence for health systems to anticipate and respond to these threats, their use remains limited, leaving many countries without the data, information, and tools they need to protect vulnerable populations.

In response to this gap, the World Meteorological Organization, in partnership with the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome, has launched a global initiative to scale up the co-production and use of climate services for health.

Objectives:

This initiative aims to improve global health outcomes by mobilizing a network of resources and actors to scale up climate science and services that inform health decision-making.

The project will expand access to digital tools and training,  pilot operational capacities to strengthen health applied services and early warning, and boost technical assistance through a global alliance of technical expertise and a strengthened WHO-WMO Climate and Health Joint Programme. 

By enhancing the capacity and cooperation of climate and health professionals to work together we aim to accelerate and enable climate-ready and resilient health systems that can save lives now and in the future.

Specific aims:

1. Accelerate climate and health science and capacity at scale by mobilizing a Global Climate Services for Health Accelerator, that seeks to institutionalize, coordinate, and leverage a network of resources, actors, and additional financing.
2. Scale in-country models and capacity for delivering and utilizing climate services for health for more than 250 million climate-impacted people, particularly for extreme heat.
3. Amplify the role of climate science and services for health in protecting health through evidence generation, awareness, and decision-support.