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The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.

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Climate change and health research: Current trends, gaps and perspectives for the future

15.10.2025

This global review summarizes climate‑and‑health research trends, evidence gaps, and priority areas to guide policies, investments and action.

Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment : Chapter 7 Climate Change

15.10.2025

This Compendium Chapter provides an overview of the main guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on climate change and health, including recommended actions, involved sectors, level of implementation, instruments and evidence level.

Guidance on mainstreaming biodiversity for nutrition and health

15.10.2025

This WHO guidance outlines approaches to integrate biodiversity into food systems to improve nutrition, health, sustainability, and resilience.

Operational guide: Early warning and response systems (EWARS) for dengue outbreaks

15.10.2025

This guide outlines how to build and manage an early warning and response system for dengue outbreaks, including in low-resource settings.

Strengthening health resilience to climate change : Technical briefing

15.10.2025

This briefing outlines evidence on climate-related health risks and presents key health system functions, strategies and interventions to build health resilience to climate change.

Climate services for health: Improving public health decision-making in a new climate

15.10.2025

This resource outlines evidence, guidance and case studies for the development of climate services for health, helping decision-makers better anticipate, manage, and reduce climate-sensitive health risks.

Climate change and health: WHO tool to estimate health and adaptation costs

15.10.2025

This excel-based tool estimates health impacts and adaptation costs of climate change, helping countries assess damages, plan adaptation measures, and compare costs for informed decision‑making.

Guidance on water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events

15.10.2025

This guidance outlines extreme weather impacts on water and sanitation systems and provides practical measures, risk management tools, and policy recommendations to strengthen resilience and protect public health.

Briefs for parliamentarians on realizing the co-benefits of action on climate and the environment

15.10.2025

This collection of briefs informs parliamentarians about the health, social and economic co-benefits of climate and environmental action, offering key evidence, talking points and priority actions.

Heatwaves and health: Guidance on warning-system development

15.10.2025

This guidance outlines the process to assess heat-health risks and develop effective Heat-Health Warning Systems. It supports preparedness, communication, and interventions to reduce health impacts from extreme heat.

Health co-benefits of climate action

14.08.2025

This summary of the health co-benefits concept is designed to support policymakers in understanding the potential returns on investment as they develop climate policies and programs.

Multiple health benefits of adaptation measures

14.08.2025

This decision support tool summarizes key health benefits of climate adaptation measures by system/sector.

Climate-resilient health development: High-level health care climate action Principle 1

11.08.2025

This paper outlines policy and operational recommendations for economies in Asia and the Pacific to develop a climate-resilient health sector through ten priority action areas.

Getting the message right: Heat risk communication to protect children

17.07.2025

This presentation, webinar recording and technical note provide recommendations for communication and action to protect pregnant women and children from heat stress.

Unequal climate justice for people with disabilities: insights and evidence from communities and civil society organisations

04.06.2025

This report offers practical insights and recommendation to ensure disability inclusion in climate action.

Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview

29.11.2024

This guidance summarizes key information and strategies for creating safe, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. It provides definitions, actionable guidance, and resources for implementation by health care managers, practitioners, and national authorities.

Quality criteria for integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions

07.11.2024

The document provides guidance for integrating health into countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), aiming to improve their quality and ambition. It supports national officials in understanding climate plans and key entry points for health, covering a structured approach, quality criteria, examples, and resources to address health impacts and promote climate-resilient and low-carbon sustainable health systems.

WHO Case Study Series on Climate Change and Health (2022)

24.09.2024

This case study series was published by the WHO in response to a call for case studies on climate and health in 2021-2022, in the momentum of COP26. These case studies showcase examples of work that is already being implemented...

Online training course: Climate Change and Health

05.01.2024

This is an interactive online course to understand the interlinkages between climate change and health and the opportunities for addressing the health risks of climate change, building climate resilient and low carbon health systems, promoting the health co-benefits of climate action, and being able to communicate this new knowledge to others.

Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems

02.12.2023

This document presents the WHO Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems. The framework’s goal is to increase the climate resilience of health systems to protect and improve the health of communities in an unstable and changing climate, while optimizing the use of resources and implementing strategies to reduce GHG emissions.

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