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United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)

Categories: Climate Resilient Health Systems, Low Carbon Sustainable Health Systems, Access to climate change funding for health, Climate Change & Health Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessments, Health National Adaptation Plans, Action Plans for sustainable low carbon health systems, Global, Europe

United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)

Serving as the UN’s think tank on global health, the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) works to advance equitable, just, and effective policies and practices by interrogating power and gender asymmetries in global health governance and accountability, health systems and workforce, digital health governance and security, and climate health emergencies and just transitions.

UNU-IIGH can add to the ongoing debates by spotlighting research that demonstrates the inequalities underpinning the health impacts of the climate emergency and highlighting the power asymmetries that determine the capabilities of communities to undertake mitigation and adaptation measures to safeguard against the negative health impacts of the climate emergency.  

The overarching aim of IIGH’s Climate Justice and Health Package is to leverage UNU-IIGH's position within the UN and network of UNU institutes, network experts, practitioners, policymakers, and academics and its location in Asia to serve as a platform for critical thinking, the exchange of knowledge and tools, and to advance evidence-based policy on the different dimensions of the climate emergency and its impact on health. 

The Institute would also aim to advocate for evidence-based policy and the public support needed for change through these partnerships and disseminate and communicate findings and results that are practical, implementable and understandable. 

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 6: Develop an action plan or roadmap by a set date to develop a sustainable low carbon health system (including supply chains).

Country experience:

Timor-Leste: Commitments 1, 2, and 3

Links:

Site in English: https://unu.edu/iigh