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 Care Without Harm training platform
This 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
This 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
This 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
EDGE 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
This 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
This 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Heatwaves and health: Guidance on warning-system development
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.
WHO Global review of climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments: Executive summary
This Executive Summary presents key findings from “A Global Review of Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments,” analyzing 31 national V&As across WHO Member States.
Multiple health benefits of climate mitigation measures
This decision support tool summarizes key health benefits of climate mitigation measures by system/sector.
Climate and Health Economic Tool (CHET)
This tool interprets the WHO Framework for the quantification and economic valuation of health outcomes originating from health and non-health climate change mitigation and adaptation action. It provides steps for evaluating climate and health outcomes together for better analysis of policies and programs.
Climate change, health and policy development: An introduction
This slide deck is a training resource for policymakers to support institutional learning on the health impacts of climate change. It includes a modifiable template to adapt training slides to context-specific needs.
Health co-benefits of climate action
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.