The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Categories: Access to climate change funding for health, Climate change & health Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessments, Health National Adaptation Plans, Net zero health systems, GHG emissions assessments, Action plans for sustainable low carbon health systems
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is an international research collaboration, established in partnership with Wellcome which continues to provide core funding, and headquartered at University College London (UCL).
Bringing together over 300 researchers from leading research institutions and UN agencies across the globe, we work to ensure that health is at the centre of how decision makers understand and respond to climate change. Through high-quality scientific data published in The Lancet, we work to inform policies that can maximise the health benefits of climate action, and enable a world in which all people can thrive.
Supporting the following commitments:
- Commitment 1: Conduct climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&As) at population level and/or health care facility level.
- Commitment 2: Develop a health national adaptation plan (HNAP) informed by the health V&A, which forms part of the National Adaptation Plan.
- Commitment 3: Use the V&A and HNAP to facilitate access to climate change funding for health.
- Commitment 4: Set a target date by which to achieve health systems net zero emissions (ideally by 2050).
- Commitment 5: Deliver a baseline assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of the health system (including supply chains).
- Commitment 6: Develop an action plan or roadmap by a set date to develop a sustainable low carbon health system (including supply chains).
Country experience:
Regional centres in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, SIDS