The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.
The resources can be filtered by:
- Resource type
- ATACH working group
- COP26 commitments
- Geographic applicability
Health and sanitation aspects of flood management
15.10.2025This resource outlines how floods affect health and sanitation systems and provides guidance for planning, preparedness, emergency response and post‑flood recovery to reduce health risks and strengthen community resilience.
12 steps to operationalize climate change in a local health department
15.10.2025This fact sheet outlines a 12‑step framework to integrate climate change into local public health operations to protect community health.
Adaptation Action and Evaluation Plan Template (AAEP)
15.10.2025This template is a flexible tool that guides planning, implementation, communication, evaluation, and management of a climate and health adaptation action.
Assessing health vulnerability to climate change: A guide for health departments
15.10.2025This document provides step-by-step guidance to conduct a climate change and health vulnerability assessment following the CDC's BRACE framework approach.
Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework
15.10.2025The BRACE Framework provides step-by-step guidance to build health resilience to climate change, with a strong focus on justice, equity and belonging. This resource includes an explainer document, implementation guide and training.
Projecting climate-related disease burden: A guide for health departments
15.10.2025This guide outlines methods for projecting climate‑related disease burdens using climate data, epidemiologic evidence, and modeling approaches. It supports health authorities in assessing future risks and planning adaptation measures.
Technical documentation on exposure-response functions for climate-sensitive health outcomes
15.10.2025This technical guidance supports the development of exposure‑response functions for climate‑sensitive health outcomes. It outlines available data sources, epidemiologic methods, and examples to help public health practitioners estimate current and future climate‑related disease burdens.
ClimaHealth platform
15.10.2025This global open-access platform serves as a technical reference point on climate services for health. It compiles relevant evidence, resources, case studies, events, tools and a practical implementation framework.
Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT)
15.10.2025This online tool and platform helps health care facilities assess sustainability maturity, prioritize actions, and track progress toward more efficient, low-carbon sustainable and climate‑resilient health care.
ThinkHazard!
15.10.2025This online map-based tool provides country‑specific information on 11 climate-related hazards. It helps users quickly understand hazard levels and access guidance, resources, and contacts to support vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning.
Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems
15.10.2025This resource outlines strategies for health systems and facilities to act as anchor institutions that advance equitable community health and climate resilience. It presents engagement models, case studies, and best practices for transformative, community‑centered collaboration.
Health Care Without Harm training platform
15.10.2025This training platform offers free courses and online learning modules for health care professionals and leaders to build their capacities in emissions reductions, toxic material elimination and climate resilience strengthening. Course contents include expert insights and practical tools.
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals: a comprehensive environmental health agenda for hospitals and health systems around the world
15.10.2025This framework of ten sustainability goals guides hospitals and health systems in reducing environmental impacts, improving public health, and strengthening global health system resilience.
Mastering media interviews to promote climate and health
15.10.2025This guide provides practical advice for health care professionals on giving media interviews about climate and health, offering strategies, key messages, and tips to confidently communicate the health impacts of climate change and necessary actions.
EDGE software, green building standard and certification system
15.10.2025EDGE is a global green building standard, software, and certification system that helps projects achieve measurable resource efficiency, supporting cost‑effective sustainable design and access to green finance.
GSC Sustainability Toolbox
15.10.2025This toolbox provides a curated set of resources, including case studies, guides, glossaries, and external links to advance climate resilience and sustainability in health facilities and systems.
"Plastic smart hospitals" A review of plastic usage within the hospital sector: Exploring methods to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic
15.10.2025This resource summarizes effective measures to reduce, replace and recycle plastic in hospital settings, based on the experience of a university hospital in Norway.
Planetary Health starts at home – how Germany’s health professionals are leading transformative change
15.10.2025This case study outlines how the German Alliance on Climate Change & Health (KLUG) mobilized health professionals to act as change agents for transformative action, including success factors and lessons learned for movement building and advocacy.
Sustainable system-wide commissioning: How a whole system approach leads to more sustainable healthcare
15.10.2025This guide outlines principles and tools to integrate sustainability considerations in decision-making on health care service design, procurement and delivery.
Smart Hospitals Toolkit
15.10.2025This practical toolkit guides health care facilities in becoming climate‑smart, disaster‑resilient and environmentally sustainable through safety assessments, green standards, baseline audits, and policy and construction guidance.