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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#HandleTheHeat checklist for climate-ready hospitals
17.06.2026This practical checklist outlines key actions and resources to help healthcare facilities strengthen climate resilience and protect patients and health professionals.
2026 Children's climate risk database and report
16.06.2026This report provides a global overview of climate impacts on children's health, including updated data and models covering a broad range of hazards for most countries and territories, including Small Island Developing States. The report also outlines key policy recommendations for climate action that protects and promotes children's health.
Low-carbon, climate-resilient health care supply chains: high-level health care climate action principle #3
15.06.2026This paper lays out six key strategies for health care supply chains to build climate resilience and greater health equity by anticipating and adapting to climate disruptions while simultaneously decarbonizing.
Health and climate key messages at country level
27.05.2026This set of resources outlines key messages and strategies to communicate on health and climate change at country level, specifically in Somalia and Burkina Faso.
Planetary Health and women with disabilities’ lived experiences of climate impact on health equity in Kenya and Uganda
15.04.2026This participatory research report shows how climate change impacts health, livelihoods, and protection for women with disabilities in Kenya and Uganda, offering concrete, community‑driven recommendations for more inclusive climate and health adaptation policies.
Climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region : synthesis of evidence, profiles of selected countries and policy direction
15.10.2025This 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
15.10.2025This global review summarizes climate‑and‑health research trends, evidence gaps, and priority areas to guide policies, investments and action.
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.
UN initiative on greening procurement in the health sector: from products to services
15.10.2025This report analyses UN health‑sector procurement practices and identifies opportunities to integrate environmental sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint.
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.
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.
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...
Transition to sustainable plastic packaging for consumer healthcare products
23.04.2024This Position Paper from the Global Self Care Federation (GSCF) outlines the consumer healthcare industry's perspective on policies needed to enhance sustainable packaging for non-prescription medicines and food supplements. It...
Red and processed meat in the context of health and the environment: many shades of red and green. Information brief
01.12.2023This document synthesizes the evidence on the role of red and processed meat production and consumption in health and environmental outcomes and in different social and political contexts. It also provides a brief overview of potential interventions to optimize health/environmental outcomes.
Climate Action and Nutrition: Pathways to Impact
01.12.2023This I-CAN paper highlights the evidence on how climate change and nutrition are interconnected through food, water, social protection and health systems and identifies 30 integrated actions, with associated key enablers, to accelerate progress on nutrition and climate outcomes.
Global Roadmap for Health Care Decarbonization
04.05.2023This document establishes a global vision for health systems to work toward zero emissions while advancing climate resilience and global health goals. It also provides country specific information for 68 nations to begin to develop their own analysis and national road maps.
Health Care Climate Footprint
27.03.2023This report provides a global estimate of health systems’ greenhouse gas emissions (with 43 country specific estimates) and examines the contributions of specific elements, such as anesthetic gases. It identifies research gaps to further understand the sector’s emissions and outlines multi-level policy recommendations for climate action.