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
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.
Climate-Smart Health Care: Low-carbon and resilience strategies for the health sector
15.10.2025This resource outlines approaches for development institutions to advance low‑carbon and climate‑resilient health systems. It includes tools and measures to reduce emissions, strengthen preparedness, and support sustainable healthcare planning and operations.
Climate change and health research: Current trends, gaps and perspectives for the future
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This 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.