This document offers strategic pillars for climate-responsive HIV programming, outlining collective action and swift, comprehensive, innovative responses to address the effects of climate change on HIV response.
Climate change and disorders of the nervous system
Anthropogenic climate change is affecting people's health, including those with neurological and psychiatric diseases. Currently, making inferences about the effect of climate change on neurological and psychiatric diseases is challenging because of an overall sparsity of data, differing study methods, paucity of detail regarding disease subtypes, little consideration of the effect of individual and population genetics, and widely differing geographical locations with the potential for regional influences.
Pathways to strengthen the climate resilience of health systems in the Peruvian Amazon by working with Indigenous leaders, communities and health officers
This study aimed to inform efforts to enhance climate change resilience in a health context by: (1) examining if and how adaptation to climate change is taking place within health systems in the Peruvian Amazon, (2) understanding how Indigenous communities and leaders’ responses to climatic hazards are being articulated within the official health system and (3) to provide recommendations to increase the climate change resilience of Amazon health systems.
Tackling Water Scarcity With Innovative Irrigation Solutions
UNDP and the Ministry of Agriculture coalition, under the SCRALA project, is enhancing climate resilience among smallholder farmers by implementing irrigation systems in Zambia
Extreme Heat Taxes Africa's Women and Reproduction
Many women in Africa have little or no protection against extreme heat events in their day-to-day lives
What Happens When Extreme Heat and Air Pollution Collide
On July 22, the world experienced its hottest day in recorded history. The global average temperature reached 17.2 degrees C (62.9 degrees F), prompting U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a global call to action on extreme heat.
Early Warning Systems Vital for Climate Risk Preparedness in Kenya
While children run and play outside the tight cluster of three dozen white tents, most of their parents are searching for food. Some mothers are chatting before searching for clean drinking water not easily accessible in the camp.
Financing Global Early Warning Systems Country Case Study: Kenya
This case study focuses on Kenya, where a population of 55 million people, multiple climate zones, and escalating health challenges due to climate change present unique challenges when it comes to establishing an EWS.
Global Research and Action Agenda for Climate Change and Mental Health
This report builds on the experiences and expertise of people with lived experience of mental health problems and of communities most affected by climate change across the world and is grounded in the insights of 960+ experts from 90 countries.
Heat Caused Over 47,000 Deaths in Europe in 2023, the Second Highest Burden of the Last Decade
Heat related mortality would have been 80% higher in absence of the adaptation observed during the present century
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