Climate and Health Initiative

Strengthening resilience to the health impacts of climate change

The Climate and Health Initiative is dedicated to addressing the growing health challenges posed by climate change by facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration across key sectors.

We bring together industry, policy and science experts to identify and scale the adoption of proven, high-impact solutions at the nexus of climate and health. 

Our workstreams

Our workstreams are designed to address complex challenges at the intersection of climate change and health, enabling targeted action, fostering collaboration, and maximising impact across critical sectors. 

Advancing workforce resilience to extreme heat

Our work aims to support businesses in addressing the growing risks that rising temperatures pose to their workforce by helping them identify, develop and scale interventions that minimise occupational heat exposure, sustain productivity, and bridge the implementation gap.

Unlocking climate and health finance

Our mission is to unlock new streams of private capital to close the investment gap in climate-resilient health by identifying where funding can deliver the greatest impact, engaging investors to overcome barriers and accelerate solutions.

Our latest insights

Explore our latest reports, case studies, and blogs to learn more about emerging health solutions.

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Workforce Heat Resilience: An Actionable Framework to Close the Execution Gap

Extreme heat is increasingly threatening human health and economic stability. This report provides a practical framework to help leaders assess where extreme heat risks are greatest, which interventions best deliver value and how to embed resilience into daily operations.

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Briefing Paper: Investing in Resilient Health
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Report: Building Economic Resilience to the Health Impacts of Climate Change
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Blog: How four cities are cutting heat, pollution and health risks - and saving money
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Blog: Resilient Health: A new investment frontier

A cross-centres initiative

The Climate and Health initiative is a cross-collaboration of our Centre for Health and Healthcare and Centre for Nature and Climate, thereby leveraging the ongoing efforts undertaken by each of them.

Centre for Health & Healthcare

The Centre for Health and Healthcare is identifying and scaling up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems.

Centre for Nature and Climate

The Centre for Nature and Climate is accelerating net-zero climate action, regenerates food, water and ocean systems, and promotes circular economies.

Climate and Health

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