Special consultation of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health

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WHO/Europe is hosting a special consultation of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health with senior health systems experts and leaders in the WHO European Region to gather their insights, priorities, practical experiences and advice on the enablers, challenges and opportunities to drive climate-health action in the health sector.

 

We will like to invite you to follow the work of the Commission and listen in live to the special consultation. The event will be hosted virtually on Zoom on Monday, 19 January 2026 at 09:00–12:00 CET. This event will be in English with simultaneous interpretation into Russian.

 

This special consultation will focus on practical approaches and solutions to strengthen health systems in the face of climate change. Experts will share insights and results from adaptation and mitigation strategies, highlight innovative approaches, and explore policy actions that can accelerate health systems resilience across the Region.

 

The discussion aims to provide the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health with actionable recommendations to ensure health systems remain robust, responsive and climate-ready – protecting populations, delivering high quality care and safeguarding health equity.

 

Provisional agenda:

• Welcome and introduction
• Setting the scene for the future of the health workforce
• Panel 1: From Policy to action: governance models driving climate solutions
• Panel 2: Greening the care pathway: Innovation for sustainable health systems
• Panel 3: Foundations for the future: Advancing resilient and low-carbon health care
• Reflections on scalability and transferability of climate action across health systems in Europe
• Concluding remarks

 

You can find more information on the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health here

You can find more information on the event here

 

Please register for the event at the link below 

Event registration