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National climate hazard indices for health: WHO technical report

Our changing planet: The U.S. global change research program for fiscal year 2021

The FY2021 edition of USGCRP’s annual report to Congress, Our Changing Planet, responds to the Global Change Research Act mandate to provide an overview of the Program’s progress in delivering on its strategic goals as well as a summary of agency expenditures under USGCRP’s budget crosscut.

Opportunities for expanding and improving climate information and services for the public

This report was developed for the National Climate Task Force by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, NOAA, and FEMA, with input from a number of federal agencies, in response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, to identify opportunities for expanding and improving climate information to better enable the public to prepare for climate change. This report outlines a vision for advancing the development, communication, and accessibility of climate services through a whole-of-government approach, including close collaboration between science providers and science users.

Public health and health care partner workshop summary report

From August 31 – September 2, 2020, the U S Environmental Protection Agency’s Ofce of Research and Development (EPA-ORD) held a virtual workshop with public health, health care, and health care system practitioners to discuss environmental health priorities within their felds and with their organizational members and to build relationships for future dialogue and collaboration on specifc topics Using a mind mapping exercise, workshop participants identifed six environmental areas of concern: built environment; climate change; environmental justice and equity; natural environment; occupational environment; and research, data, and implementation Conversations during the workshop around the mind mapping results led to a greater understanding of how environmental health concerns are intensifed during public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and existing cross-cutting environmental health issues that impact each area of concern [which include lead (Pb), environmental justice and equity, children’s health, mental health, and community design]. Opportunities were also identifed for cross-sector and crossdisciplinary communication, engagement, and collaboration (such as establishing partnerships in non-emergency times to help weather public health crises, training and workforce development, information sharing, and communication and risk communication). The information from this workshop can help EPA-ORD and its partners better understand mutual areas of interest and identify opportunities for more targeted cross-disciplinary discussions around the specifc environmental health topics of mutual concern.

Seasonality and climate change: A review of observed evidence in the United States

The Earth’s climate is changing. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and seasonal events. This technical report summarizes the current state of the science on observed changes related to seasonality in the United States and discusses how climate change affects the timing and nature of seasonal events. The report uses several key indicators sensitive to and related to seasonality as a framework for understanding the implications of a changing climate over time. The indicators are based on long-term observations and reveal the many dimensions of seasonal events, including critical connections between physical changes and biological responses. The report provides examples of how changes in seasonality affect ecological and human systems, as well as our everyday lives.

Summary of input from state, territory, and tribal partners for OAR’s FY 2023-2024 national program guidance

In September 2021, the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) offered the opportunity for national, state, local, and Tribal air, public health, and radiation associations to provide early input to inform the development of the OAR National Program Guidance (NPG) for FY 2023-2024 via letters of invitation. OAR received four sets of comments and shared that input with its offices and other national program offices, where relevant.

Findings on disproportionate risks of climate change to Black and African American individuals

This is a one-page summary of findings from EPA’s report Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts related to disproportionate risks of climate change to Black and African American individuals.

Findings on disproportionate risks of climate change to low income individuals

This is a one-page summary of findings from EPA’s report Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts related to disproportionate risks of climate change to low income individuals.

Fiscal year 2022: Oversight plan

Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts. Appendix B: Climate change and social vulnerability

Communities, climate change, and health equity: Proceedings of a workshop—in brief

As the effects of climate change become more widespread and significant, communities least able to respond are bearing the largest burden. In the United States, communities disadvantaged by a legacy of racial segregation and environmental injustice struggle with disparate health outcomes, are vulnerable to the effects of climate change (e.g., severe flooding in low-lying areas and extreme heat in urban neighborhoods), and lack sufficient resources to recover from and rebuild for resilience against future events. On October 12 and 14, 2021, the 2-day virtual workshop “Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity – A New Vision” brought together environmental health experts, resilience practitioners, climate scientists, and people with lived experience to discuss the disproportionate impact of climate change on communities experiencing health disparities and environmental injustice. During the workshop, the first in a four-part series, 41 speakers shared their perspectives on the topic and suggested specific actions that decision-makers can take to address the intersecting crises of climate change and health inequity. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

EMS disaster response

The disaster cycle involves four phases: preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation. The cycle illustrates the steps that emergency managers take when planning for and responding to a disaster. Preparation is the phase where response plans are constructed. The response is the phase where there is immediate action to limit the hazards created by the disaster. Recovery is the effort to return a community to pre-disaster levels of functioning. Mitigation is the phase where new measures are undertaken to prevent or minimize the effects of future disasters.  Some sources refer to the mitigation phase as “prevention.” To meaningfully discuss disaster response, it is essential also to discuss disaster and disaster management. Though there exists no consensus definition of disaster, the various definitions published by organizations and agencies at the forefront of disaster management have overlapping concepts. A disaster is a state in which the usual, normal day-to-day human activities within a determined geographic area cease indefinitely. It is defined by a severe disruption in the basic structure and function of a society. This abnormal state is triggered by some extraordinary circumstance, either occurring naturally or as the result of human activity. A disaster is the consequence of a sudden event or series of events of grand magnitude, which results in injury, disease, illness, loss of life, destruction of property, and/or damage to critical infrastructure and essential services. The precipitating event may be natural, i.e., natural disasters (e.g., tornado, hurricane, drought, famine, earthquake, landslides, infectious disease outbreaks, etc.) or man-made. Man-made events may be unintentional (fires, building collapses, nuclear reactor meltdowns) or intentional (terrorism, sabotage, cyber-attacks, conflict-based). In recent times, both man-made and natural disasters have occurred at an increasing frequency. Due to its scale and dimension, a disaster exceeds the emergency management capacity of local organizations and agencies, thus necessitating external assistance. That assistance may come from the state, national, and/or international levels. The rapid, immediate, and short-term actions circumjacent to a disaster are known as disaster response. Disaster response is one of the core activities of disaster management. It involves the execution of a disaster plan in the event of a disaster.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency-wide climate and health task force FY 2022 strategic framework

EPA’s Fiscal Year 2022 top management challenges

Final recommendations: Justice40 climate and economic justice screening tool and executive order 12898 revisions

2021 environmental justice small grants program project summaries by EPA region

The Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program provides funding directly to community-based organizations and tribes for projects that help residents of underserved communities understand and address local environmental and public health issues. The term “underserved community” refers to a community with environmental justice concerns and/or vulnerable populations, including people of color, low income, rural, tribal, indigenous, and homeless populations. The long-term goals of the program are to support underserved communities in their efforts to build their overall capacity and create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will improve local environments in the future. In 2021, 99 organizations nationwide were selected to receive awards totaling approximately $7.4 million in grant funding. Individual grants are for up to $75,000 each for one-year projects. These grants will benefit communities in 37 different states, as well as Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

Consideration of climate resilience in the Superfund cleanup process for non-federal national priorities list sites

This memorandum recommends approaches for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) regions to consider when evaluating climate resilience throughout the remedy selection and implementation process for sites proposed or currently listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA). Consideration of climate resilience in the Superfund cleanup process should be carried out in a manner consistent with CERCLA as well as the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) and EPA policy and guidance documents. This memorandum supplements the Agency’s existing policy statements addressing climate
resilience activities, tools, considerations and technical information found in fact sheets; however, it does not amend or modify the NCP in any way. Consideration of climate resilience should not be treated as a new criterion under 40 CFR §300.430(e)(9)(iii)).

2021 WHO health and climate change survey report

This report provides a vital snapshot of the overall progress that governments have made in the field of health and climate change to date, as well as insight into what work remains in order to protect their populations from the most devastating health impacts of climate change. The health and climate change country survey is conducted every three years and in addition to tracking global progress, the national data are presented in the health and climate change country profiles. 95 countries participated in the 2021 survey. The survey is sent to the national health authorities, who in collaboration with other relevant ministries and stakeholders, provide updated information on key areas including: leadership and governance, national vulnerability and adaptation assessments, emergency preparedness, disease surveillance, adaptation and resilience measures, climate and health finance, and mitigation in the health sector. Regular updates on key health and climate change indicators provide insight into the implementation of policies and plans, the status of assessments of health vulnerability and capacity to respond to climate change and better understand the barriers to achieving health adaptation and mitigation priorities. The 2021 global survey report provides an update to the 2017/2018 survey, and was published at the COP26 UN climate conference in November 2021.

Microbes and climate change – science, people & impacts: Report on an American Academy of Microbiology virtual colloquium held on November 5, 2021

Climate change is unarguably a critical existential threat to humanity in the 21st century. As the most abundant organisms on Earth, microorganisms make considerable contributions to and are greatly affected by a changing climate. Microbes are major drivers of elemental cycles (such are carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus), important producers and consumers of greenhouse gases, and pertinent pathogens of humans, animals, and plants. While the threat of climate change looms large, conversations about the relationship between it and microorganisms are still rare outside of the microbial sciences community. To understand fully how our climate may change in the future, it is important to learn how a changing climate will impact microbes and their relationships with humans and their environment, as well as incorporate microbial processes into climate models. This report is based on the deliberations of experts who participated in a colloquium on 5 November 2021 organized by the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and think tank within the American Society for Microbiology. These experts came from diverse disciplines and sectors and provided multifaceted perspectives and insights. Over the course of the discussion, the group made several major recommendations for academic, policy, and market partners to promote innovation for microbe-driven climate change solutions that support human well-being.

Department of Defense climate risk analysis

Climate change is reshaping the geostrategic, operational, and tactical environments with significant implications for U.S. national security and defense. Increasing temperatures; changing precipitation patterns; and more frequent, intense, and unpredictable extreme weather conditions caused by climate change are exacerbating existing risks and creating new security challenges for U.S. interests. The risks of climate change to Department of Defense (DoD) strategies, plans, capabilities, missions, and equipment, as well as those of U.S. allies and partners, are growing. Global efforts to address climate change – including actions to address the causes as well as the effects – will influence DoD strategic interests, relationships, competition, and priorities. To train, fight, and win in this increasingly complex environment, DoD will consider the effects of climate change at every level of the DoD enterprise. The DoD Climate Risk Analysis (DCRA) responds to requirements specified in Executive Order (EO) 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” The DCRA is organized as follows:
– Section I introduces key security implications of climate change to DoD, including DoD’s role supporting whole-of-government and international efforts in concert with allies and partners.
– Section II reviews DoD climate policy and responsibilities, highlighting key documents.
– Section III presents a review of climate hazards, risks, and security implications. Sections on specific regions have been identified as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and not releasable to the public. These sections were removed to allow this to be a publicly-releasable document.
– Section IV outlines how DoD will incorporate consideration of climate into relevant strategy, planning, and processes.
– Section V describes interagency scientific and intelligence products and experts, which could support future analyses of climate risk, as well as expected funding for exercises, wargames, analyses, and studies related to climate change.
– Section VI concludes the DCRA.
The DCRA is an important step towards integration of climate change considerations at DoD. To understand specific climate effects on plans, resourcing, operations, and missions, DoD Components will include climate considerations in relevant risk analyses, leveraging high-quality data, scenarios, and analytical tools tailored to DoD needs. Working within the whole-of-government, and in coordination with allies and partners, DoD will strive to prevent, mitigate, account for, and respond to defense and security risks associated with climate change.

Climate change and social vulnerability in the United States: A focus on six impacts

U.S. climate change policy

Climate adaptation action plan: October 2021

EMS emergency incident rehabilitation

Historically, firefighting has been a hazardous profession and in response, many departments and national organizations have adopted rehabilitation protocols to minimize excess risk. Fire rehab is a coordinated plan to ensure firefighters, who encounter extremes of temperature, exposure, and exertion, do not develop significant illnesses related to exertion or exposure. Fire rehab can vary from simple temperature management and oral rehydration to aggressive medical treatments and transport to a higher level of care.  Fire rehab is continually evolving as our understanding of physiologic responses to exertion and exposure change, technologies evolve, and risk tolerance adjusts. Fire rehab services have a varying structure, depending on the service and the region. Small, rural fire services may have few responders with medical training and coordinate with local EMS agencies to assist or oversee rehab.  Some fire services have a sufficient number of trained EMS providers and coordinate their own rehab, including transport to health care facilities. Large services may have highly scalable rehab plans that include multiple rehabilitation units operating under a coordinating officer.  Over the years, a group of central resources has been created that provides education and guidance on fire rehab. In 1987, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released its Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program, which comprehensively addressed common dangers and protective measures for firefighters. In 1992, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) published the short report FA-114, Emergency Incident Rehabilitation, which included a sample standard operating procedure (SOP) for fire rehab. A textbook bearing the same title was released in 1997, providing further details of the science and reasoning for the fire rehab protocols. USFA published an updated SOP, and much more comprehensive, report on Emergency Incident Rehabilitation in 2008.  NFPA 1584, Recommended Practice on the Rehabilitation of Members Operating at Incident Scene Operations and Training Exercises was issued in 2003, establishing guidelines for fire services. These recommendations were upgraded to standards in a 2008 update and again updated in 2015, with carbon monoxide monitoring added to recommended practices.  It is important to delineate that fire rehabilitation, when discussed in the context of wildfires, relates to the ecological recovery of an affected area, not the physiological recovery of humans working to contain fires. The subject of the ecological recovery after a wildfire is addressed in other literature and will not be covered in this article.

Heat-related emergency department visits during the northwestern heat wave – United States, June 2021

Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts. Appendix F: Labor

Heat stroke

Heat-related illness is a spectrum of conditions progressing from heat exhaustion, heat injury, to life-threatening heat stroke. Heat stroke is a clinical constellation of symptoms that include a severe elevation in body temperature which typically, but not always, is greater than 40°C. Also, there must be clinical signs of central nervous system dysfunction that may include ataxia, delirium, or seizures, in the setting of exposure to hot weather or strenuous physical exertion. Risk factors include environmental variables, medications, drug use, and other medical comorbidities.

Heat illness

The disorders of hyperthermia, also known as heat-related injury or illness, exist on a continuum, which is marked by dysregulation of the body’s thermoregulatory capacity. This condition can vary both in presentation and in severity, from benign conditions, including heat cramps and heat edema, to life-threatening hyperthermia, also known as heatstroke. This article will discuss non-life-threatening heat-related illnesses. It is essential to be able to identify and manage these conditions appropriately as moderate hyperthermia can progress to life-threatening heatstroke. As such, including these injuries in medical decision-making, prompt identification, and appropriate treatment is important. This article will also review the epidemiology, including at-risk populations, red-flag features of patient presentations, treatment options and strategies, and preventative techniques, which all play a significant role in decreasing the morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs associated with these injuries.

Our risk for infectious diseases is increasing because of climate change

As the nation’s public health leader, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively engaged in a national effort to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of climate change. Scientists from CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) are at the forefront of many of these efforts. This report highlights some of that work and also looks ahead to the important work yet to come. Lyme disease, West Nile virus disease, and Valley fever. These are just some of the infectious diseases that are on the rise and spreading to new areas of the United States. Milder winters, warmer summers, and fewer days of frost make it easier for these and other infectious diseases to expand into new geographic areas and infect more people. To understand climate change’s impact, it’s important to look at some of the common ways these diseases spread—through mosquito and tick bites, contact with animals, fungi, and water.

EPA announces clean truck plans

Heavy-duty trucks and buses continue to contribute significantly to air pollution at the local, regional, and national level, often disproportionally affecting communities of color and low-income populations.
To ensure the progress needed on cleaning trucks and buses and to harness improvements in vehicle technologies, EPA will issue two major regulations over the next three years—the “Clean Trucks Plan” that will result in decreasing emissions from new heavy-duty vehicles, including long-haul tractors, buses, commercial delivery trucks, and many other types of trucks. These new rules will be major steps towards improving air quality and addressing the climate crisis.

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis

EMS catastrophic events

Catastrophic events can range from natural disasters such as Hurricane Maria which devastated Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017[1] to mass casualty terrorist attacks such as when the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001. Hydrometeorological catastrophes such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods are predictable. On the other hand, geologic disasters such as earthquakes are not. Many natural disasters affect the entire infrastructure from buildings, roads, electricity, and communication. While natural disasters can affect all, they disproportionately affect the poor and vulnerable. Terrorist attacks will usually affect urban areas as they have an intentional goal to cause as many victims as possible. Complex humanitarian emergencies result in deaths from violence as well as disease. A multi-casualty incident (MCI) is an event in which the resources available (rescue personnel, healthcare providers, facilities, and equipment) are insufficient to deal with the incident. In a disaster, not only are there not enough resources, but there is a complete breakdown in communication and the ability to deliver these resources. The local rescue workers and health care personnel, may themselves become the victims or be unable to arrive at work. The local health care facilities may be damaged or destroyed.

Frameworks for protecting workers and the public from inhalation hazards

Individuals in the United States and Americans abroad are exposed to inhalation hazards from a variety of sources, and these hazards can have both short- and long-term adverse effects on health. For example, exposure to wildfire smoke, which contains particulate matter and toxic chemicals, can lead to respiratory problems, increased risk for heart attacks, and other adverse health outcomes. Individuals also may be exposed to airborne infectious agents through aerosol or droplet transmission, and as demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the individual and public health consequences of these exposures can be severe. Storms, floods, and hurricanes can increase exposure to moisture-driven hazards, such as mold, and to accidental releases from production facilities or transport vehicles that may result in chemical exposures. The current regulatory system is focused primarily on ensuring access to respiratory protection in occupational settings characterized by well-defined hazards and employer-employee relationships. With this narrow regulatory focus, the respiratory protection needs of the public and many workers are not being met. As climate change increases the incidence and severity of wildfires, hurricanes, floods, infectious disease outbreaks, and other phenomena that impact air quality and human health, it is imperative that the United States ensure that the respiratory protection needs of the public and all workers are met. Recognizing the urgent need to address the gaps in the nation’s ability to meet the respiratory protection needs of the public and workers without workplace respiratory protection programs, this report makes recommendations for a framework of responsibilities and authorities that would provide a unified and authoritative source of information and effective oversight for the development, approval, and use of respiratory protection.

EMS methods to cool a patient in the field

Hyperthermia is defined as a body temperature greater than 40 degrees C. Several conditions can cause hyperthermia. In sepsis, the immunologic reaction to the infection most often manifests as a fever. Some toxic ingestions and withdrawal states can cause elevated body temperature. Certain medications can cause a hyperthermic response, such as in neuroleptic malignant syndrome. The most common disease that can be treated by cooling alone is heat-related illness and heat stroke. Heat-related illness is a spectrum of disease that occurs when the body’s thermoregulatory system does not work properly. Heat exhaustion is characterized by elevated core body temperature associated with orthostatic hypotension, tachycardia, diaphoresis, and tachypnea. Heat stroke is defined as elevated core body temperature plus central nervous system involvement (delirium, decreased the level of consciousness, or ataxia). Heat-related illness most often affects athletes (exertional hyperthermia), but can also occur during the warm weather months or in locations with extreme temperatures. Patients with impaired thermoregulation (those at extremes of age, the obese or mentally ill) are at higher risk. The definitive treatment for heat-related illness is total body cooling. Conduction and evaporation are the two modes of cooling employed in the treatment of heat-related illness. Studies have shown ice water immersion to be the most effective and most rapid. However, there are obvious barriers to performing this in an emergency department. Marathons and other athletic events that have frequent heat-related illness sometimes have this capability. Evaporation (mist and fan) is the second most rapid way to cool a patient. Ice packs to the groin, axilla, neck, and areas near other great vessels have been shown to be less effective. Cooled intravenous fluids have been studied, but there is no clear consensus regarding their benefit (preservation of neurologic function) versus potential harm (induced shivering), but they may be considered. This article will discuss the procedure for performing evaporative cooling with other adjuncts in the field. The priority in heat-related illness is early recognition and intervention. Military and sports literature has identified 40 degrees C as the target, and the faster the target is achieved, the lower the patient mortality.

Climate change impacts on Ixodes ricinus ticks in Scotland and implications for lyme disease risk

Findings on disproportionate risks of climate change to Asian individuals and Pacific Islanders

This is a one-page summary of findings from EPA’s report Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts related to disproportionate risks of climate change to Asian individuals and Pacific Islanders.

Research and Action Agenda on Climate Change and Mental Health for Small Farmers and Fisher Peoples

Our Lands, Our Minds: Research and Action Agenda on Indigenous Mental Health in a Changing Climate

Climate Change and Mental Health: An Introductory Toolkit for Researchers

Youth Research and Action Agenda: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Generation Inheriting the Climate Crisis

Integrating Sustainability into Healthcare Quality Improvement Education

Sustainable Perioperative Care

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare

Climate Conscious Inhaler Practices in Inpatient Care

Sustainable Kidney Care

Communicating on Climate Change and Health: Toolkit for health professionals

Business Action for Adaptation & Resilience

Guidelines for drinking-water quality: small water supplies

Early Warnings For All

Proyecto AdaptaClima | Intercambio de experiencias entre los proyectos regionales AdaptaClima y ACC río Uruguay

The climate-changed child: A Children’s Climate Risk Index supplement

Children displaced in a changing climate

State of the past and future UK climate – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

VCH Chief Medical Health Officer Report 2023: Protecting Population Health in a Climate Emergency

Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Children and Youth Report 2023

Global Cooling Watch 2023

Sustainability Benchmark Data

Health Care And The Climate Crisis: Preparing America’s Health Care Infrastructure

Education for sustainable healthcare within UK pre-registration curricula for allied health professions

Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

Indicators for climate change and public health tracking – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Chapter 14. Net zero: health impacts of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Solar radiation and public health – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Impact of climate change on human exposure to chemicals in the UK – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

The direct and indirect effects of drought on human health in the UK – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Wildfires and health – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Climate change and food supply – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on vectors and vectorborne diseases in the UK – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Effect of climate change on infectious diseases in the UK – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Outdoor airborne allergenic pollen and fungal spores – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Impacts of climate change and policy on air pollution and human health – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) in the UK – State of the evidence 2023

Impact of climate change policies on indoor environmental quality and health in UK housing – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

Climate change, flooding, coastal change and public health – Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) in the UK

How the National Health and Climate Strategy supports health and saves lives

Mozambique Country Climate and Development Report

First Four Climate-Sensitive Indicators

Unlivable: What the Urban Heat Island Effect Means for East Asia’s Cities

FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031

Salud y cambio climático:¿cómo proteger la salud de las personas frente a la crisis climática?

COP28 UAE Declaration on climate and health

Arctic Report Card 2023

A Global Review of Research on Effective Advocacy and Communication Strategies at the Intersection of Climate Change and Health

A summary of the IFRC guide on climate-smart programmes and humanitarian operations

Promoting Human Health through the Global Biodiversity Framework: Linking Forests and Human Health in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

How public health should bridge justice gaps, break silos and promote health co-benefits

Impact of climate change in health in Colombia and recommendations for mitigation and adaptation

Temperature effects on mortality in a changing climate – Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK

A guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at national level

World malaria report 2023

The Fifth National Climate Assessment

Assessing drought in a changing climate

Climate Change and Health: Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment

Investing in Health and Social Protection Systems: A Proposed Investment Agenda Towards the SDGs

How to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Inhaler Prescribing – A Guide for Healthcare Professionals in the UK

The Green Theatre Checklist to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Operating Theatres

Health Care Climate Footprint

“Fan-First” Cooling – a low-carbon way to improve heat resilience in a changing climate

Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plans: Managing Health Risks Associated with Climate Variability and Change

Mainstreaming Gender in Health Adaptation to Climate Change Programmes

Technical Series on Adapting to Climate-Sensitive Health Impacts: Diarrhoeal Diseases

Global Roadmap for Health Care Decarbonization

UNOPS Sustainable Procurement Framework

Greener NHS: Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service

Designing a Net Zero Roadmap for Healthcare: Technical methodology and Guidance

Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments: Workbook for the Canadian Health Sector

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare

Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems

Summary for decision-makers to address gaps in climate science and services for health: 2023 State of Climate Services for Health Companion Document

COP28 Prospectus of Climate & Health Solutions

Protecting maternal, newborn and child health from the impacts of climate change: call for action

Red and processed meat in the context of health and the environment: many shades of red and green: information brief

Global assessment of soil pollution: Report

Understanding the compound risk of heat, humidity and air pollution on human health: A scoping review

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

2023 State of Climate Services – Health

Drought risk management and mitigation strategy 2022-2032

Advancing Environmentally Sustainable Health Research

State of Global Water Resources report 2022

Climate change and public health indicators: scoping review

Review of Current Comprehensive Heat Vulnerability and Adaptation Indices: USA Regional Differences and Gaps in Knowledge

Mitigating Methane from the Waste Sector: a Global Health Strategy

Mitigating Methane from the Energy Sector: a Global Health Strategy

Mitigating Methane from Food and Agriculture: a Global Health Strategy

Mitigating Methane: a Global Health Strategy – Overview

2023 WHO review of health in nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies: health at the heart of the Paris Agreement

Reporting on Heatwaves and the Health Impacts of Heat

Technical Brief: Health and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Zero regrets: scaling up action on climate change mitigation and adaptation for health in the WHO European Region, second edition. Key messages from the Working Group on Health in Climate Change

WHO ambient air quality database, 2022 update: status report

Protecting Children from Heat Stress: A technical note

Final Communication of the WMO COVID-19 Task Team

Addressing climate change: Supplement to the WHO Water, Sanitation and Hygiene strategy 2018–2025

A framework for the quantification and economic valuation of health outcomes originating from health and non-health climate change mitigation and adaptation action

Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health: Activities, Challenges and Opportunities

Inclusive Early Warning Briefing Note Series

Health benefits of raising ambition in Colombia’s nationally determined contribution (‎NDC)‎: WHO technical report

AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023

Environmental Stewardship: An implementation guide for boards, executive leaders, and clinical staff: Meeting hospital standards and beyond

Environmental Stewardship: An implementation guide for boards, management, and clinical staffL meeting long term care standards and beyond

Primary Protection: Enhancing Health Care Resilience for a Changing Climate

Final Report from the G7 Health Communiqué to Action: Health and Climate – Heat Preparedness through Early Warning Systems

Sectoral guide: Health & wellbeing

United In Science 2022: A multi-organization high-level compilation of the most recent science related to climate change, impacts and responses

Extreme heat: Preparing for the heat waves of the future

What is the Right to a Healthy Environment? Information Note

Considerations Regarding the Naming of Heatwaves – Technical Brief

Strong systems and sound investments: Evidence on and key insights into accelerating progress on sanitation, drinking-water and hygiene – UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2022 Report

World Malaria Report 2022

Climate change and health: the national policy overview in Europe

Background report from the G7 Health Communiqué to Action: Health and Climate – Heat Preparedness through Early Warning Systems

Reducing Exposure to Air and Water Pollution Due to Volcanic Eruptions

WHO Policy Brief: Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture

WHO Policy Brief: Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs)

WHO Policy Brief: Loss and Damage

WHO Policy Brief: Climate Change, Health & Intergenerational Equity

Provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022

Climate change as a threat to health and well-being in Europe: focus on heat and infectious diseases

Climate Change Impacts on the Health of Canadians

Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk

The State of the Global Climate 2021

From Pollution to Solution in Africa’s Cities: The case for investing in air pollution and climate change together

The IAI Compendium on Climate Change Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean

The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves

The State of Nationally Determined Contributions: 2022

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

Meteorological and Air Quality (MAQ) Services for COVID-19 Risk Reduction and Management: Recommendations for national meteorological and hydrological services

WHO-WMO Joint Programme of Work: 2019-2022 Highlights Report

Dust Mitigation Handbook

WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin No. 2 – September 2022

Feeling the Heat: How California’s Workplace Heat Standards Can Inform Stronger Protections Nationwide

Compendio de clima y salud: resúmenes ejecutivos

Nota Técnica: Escenarios de ocurrencia de dengue y malaria a nivel nacional en clima futuro

Resumen ejecutivo sobre la inclusión de servicios climáticos para la formulación de políticas públicas para el sector salud

Identificación de parámetros para el análisis de vulnerabilidad en el sector salud por peligros climáticos

UV Index – Croatia

Climate Atlas of Croatia

Información sobre radiación solar UV en Argentina como base para distintas aplicaciones

Sistema de Alerta Temprana por Temperaturas Extremas Frío (SAT-TE Frío) – Argentina

Sistema de Alerta Temprana por Temperaturas Extremas Calor (SAT-TE Calor): la evolución del SAT-OCS – Argentina

Cold Wave: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Wildfire: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Heatwave: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Drought: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Sea-Level Rise: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Storms: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Floods: Checklists to Assess Vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change

Developing Climate Information Systems for Heat Health Early Warning: Workshop report, action plan and requirements

Desert Dust Outbreak in the Canary Islands (February 2020): Assessment and Impacts

The Izaña Observatory is world-renowned as a pioneer in the studies of mineral dust and its impact on the environment. It is ideally located to serve as a Centre of excellence in future aerosol research and continue to lead research on mineral dust and its role in climate change. Due to the extensive experience available in the Canary Islands and specifically in the Izaña Observatory, in undertaking studies on Sahara mineral dust, it was considered appropriate to carry out a comprehensive multidisciplinary study of the 22-24 February 2020 dust outbreak that severely affected the archipelago. The 22-24 February 2020 dust outbreak, the most intense since there are records in the Canary Islands, is the ideal candidate for this type of study. The increase in the frequency and intensity of adverse meteorological phenomena as a consequence of climate change and global warming requires atmospheric researchers to work together with specialists from other disciplines to be able to assess the impact that adverse meteorological events, such as dust outbreaks, can have on numerous socio-economic activities, and to estimate if possible, their economic cost.

Aerobiología y alergias respiratorias de Tenerife

Esta publicación resume los resultados obtenidos en casi cinco años del proyecto de “Impacto de las intrusiones atmosféricas africanas en la calidad del aire en Canarias y de la Península Ibérica” (2004-2009), entre los que cabe destacar una caracterización completa de los pólenes y esporas de hongos muestreados en el aire de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, la elaboración de predicciones semanales de pólenes y esporas de hongos, así como la obtención de un calendario polínico de utilidad para aquellos profesionales de la medicina que trabajan en alergias y afecciones respiratorias, y para los ciudadanos de Santa Cruz de Tenerife y visitantes que sean alérgicos al polen.

Predicción del inicio de la temporada de polinización del plátano de sombra en la Comunidad de Madrid y en la ciudad de Córdoba. Técnicas y resultados

Esta nota técnica es el resultado de un trabajo interdisciplinar en el que han intervenido meteorólogos, biólogos y médicos, con el objetivo final de mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas aquejadas por problemas de alergia. Con el fin de avanzar en el conocimiento de todos los aspectos ligados a la emisión de polen de plátano en primavera, poder así mejorar el actual sistema de vigilancia de dicho polen y optimizar los recursos del sistema sanitario, han colaborado AEMET, que ha aportado su banco de datos de variables meteorológicas para diferentes horas y distintos emplazamientos, y la Consejería de Salud de la Comunidad de Madrid, que ha proporcionado los recuentos de polen diarios de su red Palinocam. El objetivo de esta colaboración ha sido avanzar en el conocimiento de todos los aspectos ligados a la emisión del polen del plátano para poder predecir con antelación suficiente su aparición en la primavera.

Sand and Dust Storms Compendium: Information and Guidance on Assessing and Addressing the Risks

The aim of the Compendium is to provide information and guidance on how to assess and address the risks posed by sand and dust storms and plan actions to combat sand and dust storms. The Compendium brings together information and guidance from a wide range of sources. It includes approaches and methodology frameworks on data collection, assessment, monitoring and early warning, impact mitigation and preparedness, and source mapping and anthropogenic source mitigation that are required in the development and implementation of policies related to sand and dust storms at sub-national, national, regional and global levels, taking into account the principles set out in the Policy Advocacy Framework for Sand and Dust Storms, and the cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary nature of the impact that sand and dust storms can cause to societies, economies, and the environment.

Climate and Health Bulletin – Nigeria

Seasonal Climate Prediction – Nigeria

This document provides meteorological information for climate change adaptation, weather disaster risk reduction, and climate resilient development in Nigeria. The document is published yearly.

Efectos del clima, su variabilidad y cambio climático sobre la salud humana en Costa Rica

Este reporte corresponde al capítulo de la guía de la CMNUCC bajo el título: Programas que comprenden medidas para facilitar la adecuada adaptación al cambio climático.

La Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) establece que los países firmantes, deben informar periódicamente a la Conferencia de las Partes (CP) sobre tres puntos básicos por medio de las Comunicaciones Nacionales (CN):

Fuentes de emisión y absorción de gases de efecto invernadero
Información relevante para el logro del objetivo de la Convención
Programas nacionales sobre mitigación y que faciliten la adecuada adaptación al cambio.
Con el fin de facilitar el reporte de la información en una forma transparente, comparable y flexible, la secretaría de la CMNUCC ha preparado instrumentos que guían la elaboración de las CN (UNFCC, 2004). Estas guías han servido de marco para adecuar la información de vulnerabilidad y adaptación de sectores relevantes para la economía y la sociedad costarricense, con el fin de que sirvan como plataforma de conocimiento para que el país inicie el camino de la adaptación ante el cambio climático con un sentido de desarrollo y aprovechamiento de oportunidades.

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Washington, District of Columbia

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Quito

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Kisumu county

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Glasgow

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Indianapolis

Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles: Accra

Myanmar National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change

The Essential Environmental Public Health Functions. A framework to Implement the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021-2030

Caribbean Action Plan on Health and Climate Change

Plan andino de salud y cambio climático 2020-2025

WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change

Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030

Protocolo para evaluar la situación del agua, el saneamiento y la higiene en establecimientos de salud con atención a la resiliencia al clima

Climate Change for Health Professionals: A Pocket Book

First Report of the WMO COVID-19 Task Team: Review on Meteorological and Air Quality Factors Affecting the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nota Técnica: Sistema de Alerta Temprana por Olas de Calor y Salud (SAT-OCS) – Argentina

Ireland Climate Action Plan 2021

Madagascar: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2022

Lebanon: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Bulgaria: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Iraq: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Malta: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Iceland: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2022

Czechia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Iran: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2022

Israel: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2022

Occupied Palestinian territories: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2022

Slovakia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile 2021

Identificación de Eventos de “Olas de Frío Extremo” en la Amazonía Peruana

Identificación de Eventos de “Olas de Calor” en la Amazonía Peruana

CH2018 Technical Report: Climate Scenarios for Switzerland

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Harmful Algal Blooms

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Blood Borne Diseases

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Waterborne Diseases

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Airborne Diseases

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Foodborne Diseases

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: COVID-19

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Dengue

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Meningococcal Meningitis

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Cholera

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Malaria

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Geohazards

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Convection-related hazards

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Wind-related hazards

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Drought

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Wildfire

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Heatwave

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Cold Wave

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Floods

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Mercury

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: Lead

Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action

UNDRR Hazard Information Profile: UV Radiation

Factsheet: Wind Chill and Canada’s Wind Chill Index

Poster: Canada’s Wind Chill Index

Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change in Canada: an update on the National Adaptation Strategy

Climate Service Provider Profiles

Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization

Shifting Risks of Malaria in Southern Africa: A Regional Analysis

Plague in a Changing Environment: A Literature Review for Madagascar

Malaria Early Warning in Ethiopia: A Roadmap for Scaling to the National Level

Climate Risk Profile: Guinea

Effects Of Climate Change On The Social & Environmental Determinants Of Health In Africa: What Can Communities Do To Strengthen Their Climate Resilience?

Climate And Health Consortium For Africa: Roundtable Discussion

Health and Environment Joint Interventions in Africa: Third Interministerial Conference On Health And Environment In Africa, Libreville, Gabon 6–9 November 2018

Framework for Scaling Up Investments in Priority Health and Environment Interventions: Third Interministerial Conference On Health And Environment In Africa Libreville, Gabon 6–9 November 2018

The Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa: 10 years on, 2008 – 2018

Third Inter-ministerial Conference On Health And Environment In Africa: Conference Proceedings and Outcomes

Landscape mapping of software tools for climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling

Health of People, Health of Planet, and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health

Health benefits of raising ambition in Pakistan’s nationally determined contribution: WHO technical report

World Malaria Report 2021

Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment

WHO Country Support on Climate Change and Health – Visual Guide

COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health: The Health Argument for Climate Action

The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

2021 WHO Health and Climate Change Survey Report

Heatwave lesson plan

Inter-Association Task Force on Exertional Heat Illnesses Consensus Statement

Regional Toolkit for Heatwave Management in Asian Cities

Adapting to climate change:Information for the New Zealand food system

IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land

How to protect yourself from breathing volcanic ash

WHO Guidelines for Malaria

Hazard Information Profiles: Supplement to UNDRR-ISC Hazard Definition & Classification Review – Technical Report

Air Pollution and COVID-19: Including elements of air-pollution in rural areas, indoor air-pollution and vulnerability and resilience aspects of our society against respiratory disease, social inequality stemming from air pollution

Annual Lightning Report 2020-2021 (Executive Summary)

GAR Special Report on drought 2021

The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security

Toxic cyanobacteria in water – Second edition

Protecting workers: occupational safety and health in response to the covid-19 pandemic

Global technical strategy for malaria 2016-2030, 2021 update

Real, Urgent & Now: Communicating the Health Impacts of Climate Change

Meningitis

Microbiological Risk Assessment Series

A Harmonized Heat Warning and Information System for Ontario (HWIS)

Assessing the Health Impacts of Urban Heat Island Reduction Strategies in the Cities of Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New York

City Resilience Toolkit: Response to deadly heat waves and preparing for rising temperatures

Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events

COPE Natural Disasters Book Series

Heat Action Planning Guide for the Neighborhoods of Greater Phoenix

Heat Health in Hong Kong

WHO Guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities

COP26 Case Studies on Climate Change and Health

First National Climate Change Risk Assessment for New Zealand

Workplace Safety and Health Guidelines: Managing Heatstress in the Workplace

Health, the global Ocean and Marine Resources

Personal interventions and risk communication on Air Pollution

A framework for mental health and psychosocial support in radiological and nuclear emergencies

WHO Chemicals Road Map and Workbook

WHO Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Annual Report 2019

Quality criteria for the evaluation of climate-informed early warning systems for infectious diseases

WHO Global Air-quality Guidelines: Particulate matter (‎PM2.5 and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide

Heat and Health in the WHO European Region: Updated evidence for effective prevention

Fiji: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Quality Criteria for Health National Adaptation Plans

The Costs of Inaction: The Economic Burden of Fossil Fuels and Climate Change on Health in the United States

Farmworkers at Risk: The Growing Dangers of Pesticides and Heat

Sustainable Cooling In Support Of A Resilient And Climate-Proof Recovery

Global Methane Assessment

WHO Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics

Vanuatu: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

WHO Guidance on Research Methods for Health and Disaster Risk Management

WHO Technical Guidance Notes on Sendai Framework Reporting for Ministries of Health

State of the global climate 2020

World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water – Tackling the Humanitarian Impacts of the Climate Crisis Together

Olas de Calor y Salud: Medidas a tomar

Jamaica: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Grenada: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Trinidad and Tobago: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Saint Lucia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Guyana: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Dominica: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Antigua and Barbuda: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Tuvalu: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Solomon Islands: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

WHO Global Strategy on Health, Environment and Climate Change

Seniors at Risk: Heat and Climate Change

High-Rise urban Form and Microclimate: Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities

Illustrated Standard Operating Procedure For Cooling Centers

Illustrated Standard Operating Procedure For Slum visits

Managing Heat Risk During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Manual de Procedimientos Estandarizados para la Vigilancia Epidemiológica de Daños a la Salud por Temperaturas Naturales Extrema

NYC extreme-heat Policy Agenda 2020

On the Frontlines: Climate Change Threatens the Health of America’s Workers

Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing excessive urban heat with a focus on passive measures

Primer for Space Cooling

Progress Report 2017-2020: global Heat Health Information Network

Reducing urban heat islands to protect health in canada: An introduction for public health professionals

Report on the Symposium on Challenges in Applied Human Biometeorology

Research Summary: HEAT (Heat Emergency Awareness and Treatment Bundle) Trial

Rx for Hot Cities: Climate Resilience Through urban Greening and Cooling in Los Angeles

State of Climate Services 2020 Report: Move from Early Warnings to Early Action

Technical Brief: Protecting Health from Hot Weather during the covid-19 Pandemic

The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019)

UV Exposure and heat illness guide helping to keep organised sport and physical activity safe, healthy and fun for all

WHO Health and Climate Change Survey Report: Tracking global progress

WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018

2019 Lancet countdown on health and climate change: Policy brief for the United Kingdom

An initial estimate of costs and benefits of a water, rest and shade intervention

Bulletin de santé publique canicule : Bilan été 2020

City Heatwave Guide For Red Cross Red Crescent Branches

Communicating Heat Risk: Experiences from C40’s Cool Cities Network

Compendium to the Primer for Space Cooling

Critical analysis of heat plans and interviews

Effets de la chaleur sur la santé en Suisse et importance des mesures de prévention: Décès dus à la chaleur pendant l’été caniculaire 2019 et comparaison avec les étés 2003, 2015 et 2018

Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through urban climate action

Exertional Heat Illness: A Clinical and Evidence-Based Guide

Forecast Demonstration Project for Improving Heat Wave Warning over india

Global Seasonal Climate Update: Target Season October, November, December 2020

Heat and air-pollution

Heat and Solid Waste Management

Heat and Water Quality

Heat in the City: Dialogue Outcome Brief

Heat in the Workplace: Dialogue Outcome Brief

HEAT: A provider manual for healthcare professionals on assessment and management of patients with heat exhaustion and heat stroke

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Food safety, climate change, and the role of WHO

Focus on Building Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health

LMIC urban air-pollution Solutions

Global Guide to Tropical Cyclone Forecasting

Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials

Land Under Pressure – Health Under Stress

Framework for the Assessment of Benefits of Action or Cost of Inaction for drought Preparedness

Preventing Cold-related Illness, Injury, and Death among Workers

Climate Change and Water UN-Water Policy Brief

Ocean Observing System Report Card 2019

Drought Impact and Vulnerability Assessment – A rapid review of practices and policy recommendations

Addressing the environmental determinants of health in vector surveillance and control strategies: Promoting key interventions

Climate and health: A guide for cross-sector collaboration

Imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe

Superfund: EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) should take additional actions to manage risks from climate change

Technical series on adapting to climate sensitive health impacts: Undernutrition

The state of climate science and why it matters: Hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology House of Representatives One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

National Guidelines for Preparation of Action Plan – Prevention and Management of Heat Wave

Predicting Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases to Protect Public Health and Strengthen National Security

Queensland State Heatwave Risk Assessment 2019

Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate

The Cooling Imperative: Forecasting the size and source of future cooling demand

Working on a Warmer Planet: The effect of heat stress on productivity and decent work

Forest fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2019

Representing the urban Heat Island Effect in Future Climates

The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe

The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe: Summary of EASAC Policy Report No. 38

United Arab Emirates: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Adapting to climate sensitive health impacts: Undernutrition

Climate, Sanitation and Health

WHO Review: Health in the Nationally Determined Contributions

Arotakenga Huringa Āhuarangi: A Framework for the National Climate Change Risk Assessment for Aotearoa New Zealand

Medical Alert! Climate Change is Harming our Health

Healthy environments for healthier populations: Why do they matter, and what can we do?

Taking a Multisectoral one-health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic diseases in Countries

Climate Change and urban Health: The case of Hong Kong as a Subtropical City

Dangerous Summer: Escalating Bushfire, Heat and drought Risk

Extreme Heat: When outdoor sports become risky

Forecast-based Financing: kyrgyzstan

Forecast-based Financing: tajikistan

Guía para la gestión de la prevención de riesgos laborales por exposición al calor

Guidance on Integrated urban Hydrometeorological, Climate and Environment Services Volume II: Demonstration Cities

Guidance on Integrated urban Hydrometeorological, Climate and Environmental Services Volume I: Concept and Methodology

Guidelines for Malaria Vector Control

Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Framework

Heat waves and human health: Emerging evidence and experience to inform risk management in a warming world.

Heatwave Guide for Cities

Heatwave Issue Brief

Impacts of heat on health (Excerpt from the 2018 WMO Statement on the State of the global Climate)

Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Futureof Dangerously Hot Days

Linee di Indirizzo per la Prevenzione: Ondate di calore e inquinamento atmosferico

Monitoring Health Impacts from Extreme Heat Events in North America: Workshop Summary Report

COP24 Special Report: Health & Climate Change

Management of A Cholera Epidemic

Updating the evidence related to heat–health action planning

Climate Change and air-pollution: The Impact on Human Health in Developed and Developing Countries

Climate Change and Health in Small Island Developing States: A WHO special initiative, Pacific island countries and areas

Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate

Health, environment and climate change: human health and biodiversity: report by the Director-General

Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II

Preparing public health officials for climate change: a decision support tool

Public health and climate change adaptation policies in the European Union

2018 global Report on Food Crises

1st Global Forum on Heat and Health Summary Report

1st Meeting of ICOH SCTF (2018-2021) Meeting on the occupational-health and Productivity Impacts of Workplace Heat in Relation to global and Local Climate Change

2019 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

Assessment of Occupational Heat Strain and Mitigation Strategies in Qatar

Call to Action from the 1st global Forum on Heat and Health

Chilling Prospects: Tracking sustainable cooling for all

Climate Change and Heat-Induced Mortality in india

Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks

Press release: Climate and Health Experts Commit to Tackle the Deadly Consequences of Heat, Hong Kong, china, 17-20 December 2018

Heatwaves: Adapting to climate change

The 1.5 Health Report: Synthesis on Health and Climate Science in the IPCC AR5 Report

WHO Housing and Health Guidelines

CH2018 – Swiss Climate Scenarios

Designing user-driven climate services: What we can learn from the Climandes project: A checklist for practitioners, scientists and policy makers

Estudio de condiciones atmosféricas favorables a los incendios forestales en el Perú

Operational Guide: The early warning and response systems (EWARS) for Dengue Outbreaks

Climate change and health in Small Island Developing States: background document

The 1.5 Health Report: Synthesis on Health & Climate Science In the IPCC SR1.5

Climate Change and Environmental Health

Prescribing Clean Air: air-pollution and children’s health

Communicating risk in public health emergencies

One Health: Operational framework for strengthening human, animal, and environmental public health systems at their interface

Management of radioactivity in drinking-water

Thyroid Health Monitoring after Nuclear Accidents

Malaria surveillance, monitoring & evaluation: a reference manual

Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016

Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on child health

Strengthening resilience: a priority shared by Health 2020 and the Sustainable Development Goals

Climate-Smart healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector

Guidance on Integrating Biodiversity Considerations into one-health Approaches

Towards one-health preparedness

Communicating Impacts and Mitigation for Wind Chill and Extreme Cold

Climate Resilient Water Safety Planning (CR-WSP)

Strengthening surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases

Ending Cholera – A global roadmap to 2030

Adaptation Gap report

Chilling Prospects: Providing Sustainable Cooling for All

Clima y Salud en La Argentina: Diagnóstico de Situación 2018

Climate and Health Experts Commit to Tackle the Deadly Consequences of Heat, Hong Kong, China, 17-20 December 2018

Factsheet: Heat and Cold Wave Index (HCWI)

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Heat Health Plans: Guidelines

The impacts of climate change on human health in the United States: A scientific assessment

Potential impacts of accelerated climate change

Poverty and death: disaster mortality, 1996-2015

Shock waves: managing the impacts of climate change on poverty

Strategic review of food security and nutrition inbangladesh

A review of climate change vulnerability assessments: Current practices and lessons learned from DOE’s Partnership for Energy Sector Climate Resilience

A Guide for Syndromic Surveillance for Heat-Related Health Outcomes in north-america

Estate sicura – Caldo e lavoro: Guida per i lavoratori

Estate Sicura – Come vincere il caldo: Informazioni e raccomandazioni per il Medico di medicina generale

Meteorological risk: extreme temperatures

Strategies for Cooling singapore

Climate-resilient water safety plans: Managing health risks associated with climate variability and change

Hitzewelle-Massnahmen-Toolbox

Climate-resilient water safety plans

Environmentally sustainable health systems

Human Health Impacts of Climate Change for New Zealand: Evidence Summary

Children’s Environmental Health Atlas, Inheriting a sustainable world?

Occupational Exposure to Heat and Hot Environments: Criteria for a Recommended Standard

Recomendaciones para la Prevención, Diagnóstico y Tratamiento de Golpe de Calor

Roadmap for Planning Heatwave Management in India

Climate Change and Labour: Impacts of Heat in the Workplace

Ambient air-pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease

Handbook of drought Indicators and Indices

Climate Change and Health: Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks

Climate Change and Human Health Scenario in South and Southeast Asia

United States of America: Climate and Health Country Profile

Climate change indicators in the United States

Climate change-related disasters and human displacement: towards an effective management system

Climate change: The fiscal risks facing the Federal Government

Climate impacts on food security and livelihoods in Asia: a review of existing knowledge

Food security and health

Health and climate change: Report by the Secretariat

Implications for US national security of anticipated climate change

Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate

Opportunities to enhance the Nation’s resilience to climate change

Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

Implementing the European Regional Framework for Action to protect health from climate change: A status report

Lancet Commission on health and climate change: briefing for health policymakers and health professionals

Lancet Commission on health and climate change: briefing for the global health communitiy

Modeling the health risks of climate change: Workshop summary

National security implications of climate-related risks and a changing climate

Promoting health while mitigating climate change: technical briefing for the World Health Organization Conference on Health and Climate

Review of the draft interagency report on the impacts of climate change on human health in the United States

Strengthening health resilience to climate change: Technical briefing for the World Health Organization Conference on Health and Climate

The human cost of weather related disasters: 1995-2015

Unless we act now: the impact of climate change on children

Vulnerability of cattle production to climate change on U.S. rangelands

Women and Climate Change inbangladesh

Adaptation in action: Grantee success stories from CDCÕs climate and health program

A Brief Guidance For The Protection Of Employees Against The Effects Of Heat Stress For Outdoor Works

California Heat & Health Project: A Decision Support Tool

Clinical Guidelines on Management of Heat Related Illness at Health Clinic and Emergency and Trauma Department

Good Practice Guide: Cool Cities

Guide to identifying alert thresholds for heat waves in canada based on evidence

Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low- and middle-income countries

Human health and climate change in Pacific Island countries

Promoting health while mitigating climate change

Protecting Your Health in an Emergency

Toolkit Houtrook en gezondheid

Health 2020: Agriculture and health through food safety and nutrition

Connecting global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health, a State of Knowledge Review

Healthy Environment Healthy People

Reducing global health risks through mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants: Scoping report for policymakers

Managing meningitis epidemics in Africa: a quick reference guide for health authorities and health-care workers, Revised 2015

Building the Knowledge Base for Climate Resiliency: New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report

Climate change adaptation in United States federal natural resource science and management agencies: A synthesis

Climate change and conflict: An annex to the USAID climate-resilient development framework

Climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region: Synthesis of evidence, profiles of selected countries and policy direction

Climate change vulnerability assessment: a report assessing how climate change will impact worker health and how to prepare for these impacts

Climate change, global food security, and the U.S. food system

Climate change: HHS (Health and Human Services) could take further steps to enhance understanding of public health risks

global megatrend update 9: Increasingly severe consequences of climate change

Health and the environment: Addressing the health impact of air-pollution: Report by the Secretariat

Health and the environment: Climate and health: Outcome of the WHO Conference on Health and Climate: Report by the Secretariat

Strengthening health resilience to climate change

China: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Ghana: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Malaysia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Kenya: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Kuwait: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

South Africa: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Colombia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Morocco: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Iran: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Oman: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Tanzania: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Egypt: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Ethiopia: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Myanmar: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Pakistan: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

WHO Guidance to Protect Health from Climate Change through Health Adaptation Planning

Impact of Climate Change on Water and Health

Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s

The Pan African programme for public health adaptation to climate change: current status and perspectives

The World Health Organization in action: the fight against malaria and other vectorborne and parasitic diseases

The health impacts of climate change on Americans

The nexus of biofuels, climate change, and human health: Workshop summary

Evaluation of Information Systems Relevant to Climate Change and Health

Heatwaves and Health: Guidance on Warning-System Development

Technical Report on Karachi Heat wave June 2015

WMO Guidelines on Multi-hazard Impact-based Forecast and Warning Services

Climate Change and Health Risks in Senegal

United States of America: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Timor-Leste: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Peru: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

Thailand: Health and Climate Change Country Profile

CH2014 – Impacts Toward quantitative scenarios of climate change Impacts in switzerland

Response to Major fires: Guideline for Public Health Units – Revised edition 2014

Enhancing Sustainable Communities With Green Infrastructure

An introduction to risk communication

one-health Scientific and Technical Review

Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A guide for health departments

Challenges of climate change: children on the front line

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Pt B: Regional Aspects

Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change

Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report

Climate Change and Food Security

Climate Change and global Health

Climate models and the use of climate projections: a brief overview for health departments

Climatic factors and the occurrence of dengue fever, dysentery and leptospirosis in sri-lanka 1996-2010: a retrospective study: technical report

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it Up

Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability

Gender, climate change and health

global Climate Change and Public Health

The Garnaut Review 2011: australia in the global response to climate change

Decisions made by farmers that relate to climate change

Extreme Heat Events Guidelines: Technical guide for health care workers

A Practical Guide to Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements

Atlas of Health and Climate

Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements Toolkit

Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook

Standardized Precipitation Index User Guide

The global view of campylobacteriosis: report of an expert consultation, Utrecht, Netherlands, 9-11 July 2012

Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012

Defining Heatwaves: Heatwave defined as a heat impact event servicing all community and business sectors in Australia

Heat-Ready: Heatwave awareness, preparedness and adaptive capacity in aged care facilities in three australian states: New South Wales, Queensland and South australia (Final Report)

New Zealand’s changing climate and oceans: The impact of human activity and implications for the future

Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

Health and environment: communicating the risks

Floods in the WHO European Region: Health Effects and their Prevention

Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

Early detection, assessment and response to acute public health events: Implementation of Early Warning and Response with a focus on Event-Based Surveillance

Guide for the evaluation of a warning system for people vulnerable to heat and smog

The Caribbean Agrometeorological Initiative (CAMI): An Evaluation of Climate Services

Measurement and Forecasting of Ultraviolet Index in Hong Kong

Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies urban Heat Island Basics

Contributing to One World, one-health: A Strategic Framework for Reducing Risks of Infectious diseases at the Animal-Human-Ecosystems Interface

Heatwave Planning Guide: Development of heatwave plans in local councils in Victoria

Technical summary: Improving public health responses to extreme weather/heat-waves – EuroHEAT

The health benefits of tackling climate change: An Executive Summary for The Lancet Series

Integrated flood management Concept Paper

Consistent messages for CDEM: Volcanoes

Healthy environments for healthy children, key messages for action

Action is Needed on Chemicals of major public health concern

When Every Drop Counts: Protecting Public Health During drought Conditions: A guide for public health professionals

Flash Flood Early Warning System Reference Guide

Communicating the Health Risks of Extreme Heat Events

Public Health Advice on Preventing Health Effects of Heat

Peru Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Desktop Study

Safety and health in agriculture

Health in the green economy: health co-benefits of climate change mitigation – housing sector

one-health: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Strategic Action Plan

Flooding and Communicable Diseases Factsheet

Guidelines on biometeorology and air-quality forecasts

Heat-waves: Risks and responses

Malaria epidemics: Forecasting, prevention, Early warning and Control – From policy to practice

National drought Management Policy Guidelines: a template for action

Using Climate to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks: A Review

WHO Guidelines for indoor air-quality: Dampness and mould

Using climate to predict infectious disease epidemics

Health & Environment: Tools for Effective Decision-Making

Communicable disease surveillance and response systems. Guide to monitoring and evaluating

Excessive Heat Events Guidebook

Solar ultraviolet radiation: global burden of disease from solar ultraviolet radiation

Combating waterborne disease at the household level

A proposed Approach to Monitoring and Assessing drought in the Caribbean

First aid for excessive heat victims

Foodborne disease outbreaks : guidelines for investigation and control.

Guidelines for treating and preventing hot weather health impacts

Heat-health action plans: Guidance

Nationale klimaatadaptatiestrategie 2016

India National Action Plan For Climate Change & Human Health

Adaptation aux changements climatiques en Suisse – Plan d’action 2020-2025

Climate Services for Health: Fundamentals and case studies for improving public health decision-making in a new climate

WHO Operational Framework for Building Climate Resilient Health Systems