• The Next Phase of Financing for Resilience  

    Online

    The revised Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) funding gap from private investments now stands at a staggering USD 4.2 trillion annually. With six years remaining to achieve the 2030 targets, we need new avenues for financing that can bolster resiliency across sectors. While international public financing for adaptation to emerging markets reached $28 billion in 2022, […]

  • Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat

    Online

    Rising global temperatures pose a significant threat to communities, with escalating extreme heat and heatwaves endangering lives worldwide. With heat driving extreme events, chronic heat exposure already at dangerous levels in parts of the world and the intensity and frequency of heatwaves increasing globally, rising temperatures are becoming a critical threat to all of us, […]

  • Scaling Impact: Climate & Health Solutions That Drive Change

    Campus Biotech Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Genève

    Climate change is already reshaping the world’s health landscape. This session brings together leading actors to move beyond discussion and into action, showcasing concrete solutions from the field and highlighting urgent challenges that demand collective response. As the World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva, this session aims to build momentum by connecting communities of practice […]

  • Climate Change and Health: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing World

    Campus Biotech Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Genève

    Climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it is a public health emergency. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns are placing unprecedented stress on health systems and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Strengthening adaptation and resilience is now essential to safeguarding human well-being. This symposium brings together global experts to advance international […]

  • Planetary health: a contribution through cooperation, research and art

    Warwick Hotel 14 Rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland

    Registration link: here Also known as “the lungs of the earth”, the rainforest plays a pivotal role in providing global climate stability, regulating water cycles and biodiversity conservation. However, its intensified deforestation is leading to a severe disregulation of the planet’s environmental balance, compromising the health and livelihoods of current and future generations and disproportionately […]

  • Pathways to action on clean air, climate and health

    Restaurant Vieux Bois Av. de la Paix 12, Geneva, Switzerland

    Momentum at the intersection of health, climate and clean air action has accelerated in the past 12 months, with the adoption of the WHA77 resolution on climate change and health and inclusion of climate and health as the first pillar of WHO’s 14th General Programme of Work. At WHA78, the adoption of the global action […]

  • Pathways to clean air, climate and health

    Restaurant Vieux Bois (Av. de la Paix 12, 1202 Genève Genève) Restaurant Vieux Bois (Av. de la Paix 12, 1202 Genève Genève), Genève, Switzerland

    Momentum on health, climate and clean air is accelerating, and the focus must now move to understanding how to implement new global commitment. This discussion will explore how governments, public health leaders and communities are driving change at the intersection of climate, clean air and health – and the practical pathways to a just and […]

  • Reframing Planetary Health in Geopolitical Crises

    WHO Building Geneva, Switzerland

    We live in an era when the interdependence of human health and the environment has never been more evident—or more vulnerable. Many sectors and key constituencies are not only disproportionately affected in these contexts, but also hold vital knowledge and capacity for driving change that is not only scientifically sound but socially just and politically […]

  • A Blueprint for Building Epidemic-Ready and Climate-Resilient Primary Health Care Infrastructure

    Online

    Resolve to Save Lives and Jacobs invite you to a webinar exploring Foundations for Sustainable Health: A Blueprint for Epidemic-Ready and Climate-Resilient PHC Infrastructure. The blueprint offers a practical, scalable model for upgrading or constructing primary health care facilities that are ready for both everyday services and emergency response. The blueprint was officially launched during a […]

  • Risk, Resilience, Results. The Power of Investing in Locally-led Climate and Health Solutions

    Studio Gather 45 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, NY, United States

    Climate change continues to intensify global health crises, driving increases in malnutrition, vector-borne diseases, and heat-related illnesses, which disproportionately affect the world’s most vulnerable communities. Amid these escalating risks, health adaptation efforts are increasingly recognized as one of the most effective investments in climate resilience. Across the globe, community-level solutions are already demonstrating their impact—showing how targeted, […]

  • Studio Gather and Online

    As climate change accelerates the frequency and severity of health crises—driving malnutrition, vector-borne disease, and heat-related illness—locally-led adaptation is emerging as an effective and cost-efficient tool for building resilience. Yet funding for these solutions remains fragmented, inconsistent, and largely out of reach for the communities best positioned to implement them. This high-level event will spotlight […]