ATACH Technical Meetings

List of Technical Meeting topics

The preliminary list of Technical Meeting topics below is proposed based on the outcomes of the March 2024 meeting and discussions with ATACH members through Working Group meetings. Organizers were selected in January 2025.

• Acronyms: CCH: Climate Change and Health | CRHS: Climate Resilient Health Systems | LCSHS: Low Carbon Sustainable Health Systems | HCF: Health Care Facilities | I-CAN: Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition

	Technical Meeting Topics	Thematic Areas	Selected Organizer(s)
1	Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments Clinic	CRHS	World Health Organization (WHO)
2	Follow Up to Global meeting on Climate-informed health surveillance, Geneva	CRHS	TBC
3	Health National Adaptation Plans (HNAPs) Clinic	CRHS	WHO
4	Addressing heat stress through CRHS	CRHS	TBC
5	Climate change and maternal and newborn health, women and children	CRHS / LCSHS / Other sectors	Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)
6	Gender, climate change and health (incl. nutrition and sexual and reproductive health and rights)	CRHS / LCSHS / Other sectors, I-CAN	Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
7	Action Planning for Low Carbon Sustainability in Health Systems & Facilities - Clinic	LCSHS	WHO Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
8	Vaccination and climate change within the overall framework for building climate resilient, low carbon sustainable health systems	CRHS / LCSHS	Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
9	Framework / roadmap on supplier engagement for CRHS and LCSHS	CRHS / LCSHS	TBC
10	Investment landscapes (various meetings)	Finance	WHO United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
11	Development Banks (DBs) co-investment framework	Finance	TBC
12	COP28 Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions and next steps	Finance	TBC
13	Developing investment cases at country level – how countries can raise funds, cost-benefit approaches and benefits of CCH investment	Finance	TBC
14	Training on developing proposals on CCH to be submitted to key climate and/or health funding streams	Finance	TBC
15	Integration of nutrition into national climate and biodiversity action plans including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)	Other sectors, I-CAN	Arab Republic of Egypt Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
16	Small Island Developing States (SIDS) group	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	PAHO
17	Regional Sub-groups (e.g. Mekong region)	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	TBC
18	Subnational authorities’ role and activities supporting CCH implementation / Decentralization of CCH Governance in health systems	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	TBC
19	Synergies between climate change and health and One Health	CRHS / LCSHS / Other sectors	WHO
20	Maturity-level country/area groupings (countries/areas starting to work on LCSHS, countries/areas advanced in LCSHS)	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	TBC
21	Developing health workforce capacity on CCH	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	The Geneva Learning Foundation
22	Health leadership for CCH	CRHS / LCSHS	Geneva Sustainability Centre Canadian Coalition of Green Health Care
23	Building CRHS in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States	CRHS / LCSHS	WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
24	Building climate resilient and low carbon sustainable HCFs including through water, sanitation, waste management and energy.	CRHS / LCSHS	WHO Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
25	Health systems (climate-related) disaster and emergency preparedness, planning, response and recovery	CRHS	TBC
26	Air quality improvement as a lever for CCH action at country level	CRHS / LCSHS / Other sectors	TBC
27	Advancing and addressing intersectoral collaboration for advancing CCH	CRHS / LCSHS / Finance / Other sectors	WHO Arab Republic of Egypt
28	Mental health and CCH – health systems approach	Other sectors	United for Global Mental Health
29	CCH and Non-Communicable Diseases – health systems approach	CRHS / LCSHS / Other sectors	WHO
30	Life-Cycle Assessments (LCAs) - Standardization of data while keeping it simple and usable	LCSHS	TBC

 

Criteria for Technical Meeting topics

All ATACH Members can propose Technical Meeting topics, and express interest to organize and/or contribute to Technical Meetings. To ensure maximal relevance and usefulness for country work on climate and health, topics will be selected on a rolling basis following the proposed criteria below. To be organized in the ATACH, Technical Meeting topics should: 

1. Have demonstrated interest from at least one ATACH country/area, which is already working on this topic and/or interested in doing so.   
2. Be relevant to countries’ climate change and health priorities as identified in ATACH meetings and key documents/assessments.       
3. Be oriented towards action and implementation of interventions (e.g., not only focused on sharing evidence or research results).  
4. Be organized by an ATACH member with demonstrated experience, willingness and availability to organize and facilitate the meeting following guidance from the Secretariat. 
5. Involve a diversity of ATACH members as contributors, to showcase diverse knowledge, experiences and approaches, not only being focused on the work of one ATACH member. E.g., Topic could be “Air quality improvement as a lever for CCH action” and not “Air quality improvement by X project/organization” 

In addition, topics will be prioritized depending on availability of organizers and interest from broadest range of ATACH countries/areas and partners, while aiming for a balanced spread across thematic areas and for a diversity of ATACH members sharing their knowledge and experience.  

 

Roles and responsibilities in Technical Meetings

All ATACH Members can apply to organize or contribute to Technical Meeting. A call for expressions of interest will soon be made available on the ATACH Members Area (not available yet). Interested members are invited to review the suggested responsibilities below to inform their approach.

Technical Meeting organizers are responsible for: 

• Preparing the agenda for the Technical Meeting following a template provided by the Secretariat; 

• Coordinating the organization of the meeting, including with additional ATACH members interested in contributing; 

• Chairing the meeting as leading organizer, but also may consider inviting other co-convener(s); 

• Developing a summary of meeting outcomes and recommending next steps for the topic in coordination with the ATACH Secretariat (as relevant)

 

Technical Meeting contributors’ responsibilities will be agreed in consultation with Technical Meeting organizers, and could include:

• Contributing to the preparation of the Technical Meeting;
• Presenting during the Technical Meeting to share knowledge, experiences and/or technical approaches on the meeting topic;
• Participating in communication and dissemination activities related to the Technical Meeting;
• Other tasks as relevant to the Technical Meeting objectives.

 

The ATACH Secretariat is responsible for: 

• Providing a template for meeting organization in alignment with the objectives set for technical meetings. 

• Providing inputs to the agenda prepared by the meeting lead. 

• Inviting expressions of interest by other members interested in contributing to the specific meeting. 

• Providing administrative support with meeting links creation and invitations to the ATACH mailing list. 

• Updating the schedule of meetings on a rolling basis on the ATACH Community of Practice.

 

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