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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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Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems

15.10.2025

This 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

15.10.2025

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.

Mastering media interviews to promote climate and health

15.10.2025

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.

Planetary Health starts at home – how Germany’s health professionals are leading transformative change

15.10.2025

This 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

15.10.2025

This guide outlines principles and tools to integrate sustainability considerations in decision-making on health care service design, procurement and delivery.

Smart Hospitals Toolkit

15.10.2025

This 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.

Climate-Smart Health Care: Low-carbon and resilience strategies for the health sector

15.10.2025

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.

Building health care sector resilience toolkit

15.10.2025

This toolkit outlines best practices, checklists and a five-element framework for climate-resilient health care facilities based on the US context.

Climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region : synthesis of evidence, profiles of selected countries and policy direction

15.10.2025

This WHO report synthesizes evidence on climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region, outlining country vulnerabilities and key policy directions to strengthen climate‑resilient health systems.

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.

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.

WHO Global review of climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments: Executive summary

26.08.2025

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.

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.

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