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A Decade of Impact: How the IFMSA Environment and Health Program Is Shaping the Future of Planetary Healthphoto credit: © WHO / Harrison Thane

A Decade of Impact: How the IFMSA Environment and Health Program Is Shaping the Future of Planetary Health

18 February 2026 | News highlights from 10 years of the IFMSA Environment and Health Program

An infant receives a vaccination shot.photo credit: WHO / Enric Catala Contreras

Call for expressions of interest for CARESA

Invitation to collaborate on studies that use the CARESA modelling tool to quantify the environmental impact of patient pathways, for any disease or geography

a large sculpture of an abstract egg shaped design on a bridge in Dubaiphoto credit: Canva

MOHAP Highlights Climate and Health Initiatives at World Health Expo Dubai 2026

Summary of climate and health initiatives at the World Health Expo Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2026.

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Health at the heart of national adaptation planning: a global review of national adaptation plans and health national adaptation plans

This global review sheds light on how health is considered in national adaptation planning processes around the world, highlighting best practices and providing recommendations for the comprehensive integration of health in adaptation plans.

Categories: Health National Adaptation Plans, Guidance document, Country experience, Global

Smart Buys: High-value actions for health sector adaptation

This report offers countries a set of options of adaptable, cost-beneficial actions to strengthen health sector adaptation and resilience in the face of climate change.

Categories: Access to climate change funding for health, Health National Adaptation Plans, Guidance document, Global

Decarbonizing the healthcare supply chain: strategic actions for health systems

This report outlines practical strategies for decarbonizing health supply chains through aligning sustainable procurement practices, optimizing product and service use, and accelerating supplier action. It outlines key interventions for leaders and policymakers, including procurement levers and low-regret actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Categories: Action plans for sustainable low carbon health systems, Guidance document, Global, Low Carbon Sustainable Health Systems

Key facts

5.2 %
The health care sector is responsible for approximately
of global greenhouse gas emissions. (The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels. Romanello, Marina et al. The Lancet, Volume 400, Issue 10363, 1619 - 1654)
28 %
Only
of ministries of health in low-and-lower-middle-income countries are currently receiving international funds to support climate change and health work. (2021 WHO health and climate change global survey report)
103
countries and areas have formally committed to building climate resilient and/or low carbon sustainable health systems as part of the COP26 Health Programme.

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