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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Heatwaves and health: Guidance on warning-system development
15.10.2025This 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
26.08.2025This 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
14.08.2025This decision support tool summarizes key health benefits of climate mitigation measures by system/sector.
Climate and Health Economic Tool (CHET)
14.08.2025This 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
14.08.2025This 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
14.08.2025This 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
14.08.2025This 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
11.08.2025This 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
17.07.2025This presentation, webinar recording and technical note provide recommendations for communication and action to protect pregnant women and children from heat stress.
Policy brief: Humanitarian action in the planetary crisis
04.06.2025This policy brief outlines actionable recommendations for humanitarians, researchers, policy makers and donors to protect people, animals, plants and ecosystems.
Unequal climate justice for people with disabilities: insights and evidence from communities and civil society organisations
04.06.2025This report offers practical insights and recommendation to ensure disability inclusion in climate action.
Aga Khan Health Services' Sustainability Guidelines for Staff
20.03.2025These Sustainability Guidelines are an open-access resource promoting staff-wide engagement in sustainable healthcare through practical strategies, awareness, and innovation, while emphasizing key co-benefits of sustainability in healthcare.
Resourcing Climate and Health Priorities: Mapping of International Finance Flows, 2018-2022
17.01.2025This report provides an elaborate analysis of the levels and trends in self-reported financing for climate and health, to inform the efforts of countries, funders, implementers and advocates to strengthen climate and health financing.
Air pollution and health: Training toolkit for Public Health Workers
17.01.2025Developed by WHO in collaboration with international health experts and scientists, the Air Pollution and Health Training (APHT) toolkit is a set of materials designed to enable public health workers to understand the health risks...
Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview
29.11.2024This 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.
Green Surgery: Reducing the environmental impact of surgical care
26.11.2024This report provides actionable recommendations and case studies showing how to reduce the environmental impact of surgical care, while maintaining high-quality care and generating health system savings. It is also linked to an e-Learning module on Green Operating Theatres.
Plant-powered Planet: Building a Healthy and Sustainable Food System
26.11.2024This evidence-based policy report highlights the importance of food system transformation for health and sustainability. It outlines key policy interventions to address interlinked challenges of food insecurity, environmental degradation, and health.
Lessons from patient safety to accelerate healthcare decarbonization
13.11.2024This article outlines key lessons learnt and best practices from the field of patient safety which could serve as catalysts to accelerate healthcare decarbonization and reduce greenwashing. It describes challenges and opportunities for healthcare sustainability efforts and provides several recommendations for additional steps to prevent greenwashing for voluntary sustainability programs.
National policies to accelerate climate action in US healthcare
13.11.2024This manuscript published in Nature Climate Change describes efforts to mobilize climate actions for U.S. healthcare, which contributes about 8.5% of national greenhouse gas emissions. The authors detail recommendations for...
Health Care Actions for Reducing Plastic Use and Pollution
13.11.2024This article describes how plastic waste from healthcare, much of which consists of single-use plastic devices, harms the environment and human health. The authors discuss sociotechnical approaches to reduce healthcare plastics...