Climate and Health Financing: The Current Conversation and a Model for Application
The United Nations Framework on the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) oversaw the 2015 Paris Agreement which sought the commitment of 196 parties to keep global warming under 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels. Only in 2023 during the Conference of Parties (COP28) did it host the first ever Health Day in its history, thereby recognizing the severe impacts the climate crisis had on health and wellbeing. With it came a series of financing commitments from a variety of donors to address the most urgent climate and health challenges affecting frontline communities globally.
Ahead of this year’s COP29, this webinar will revisit the current landscape of climate and health finance, the global mechanisms in place for civil societies and governments from which funding can be accessed, and share an example of how one major funding mechanism is currently being leveraged to address climate and child health issues at a country-level.
This session is part of the Climate Change and Health Forum, the second round of the Child Health Task Force’s (CHTF) successful 2022-23 webinar series on climate change and children’s health. This session is jointly hosted by the Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) Collaborative, CHTF, Save the Children, Global Communities, Global Climate and Health Alliance and UNICEF.
Speakers:
Arthur Wyns, Former Health Advisor to COP28, Research Fellow at University of Melbourne
Elena Villalobos Prats, Capacity Building and Country Support Lead, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization
Greg Kuzmak, Director, Health, The Rockefeller Foundation
Alexis Feeney Tallman, Managing Director, Health, The Rockefeller Foundation
Seonmi Choi, Senior Advisor, Climate Change and Environment, Global Fund
Imelda Phadtare, Principal Advisor, Climate Change, Save the Children
La Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC) a supervisé l'Accord de Paris de 2015 qui visait l'engagement de 196 parties à maintenir le réchauffement climatique en dessous de 1,5 °C au-dessus des niveaux préindustriels. Ce n'est qu'en 2023, lors de 28e Conférence des Parties sur les changements climatiques (COP28), qu'elle a organisé la toute première Journée de la santé de son histoire, reconnaissant ainsi les graves impacts de la crise climatique sur la santé et le bien-être. Cela s’est accompagné d’une série d’engagements financiers de la part de divers donateurs pour relever les défis climatiques et sanitaires les plus urgents qui touchent les communautés de première ligne à l’échelle mondiale. En amont de la COP29 de cette année, nous souhaitons revisiter le paysage actuel du financement du climat et de la santé, les mécanismes mondiaux en place pour les sociétés civiles et les gouvernements auprès desquels les financements peuvent être obtenus, et partager un exemple de la façon dont un mécanisme de financement important est actuellement utilisé pour résoudre les problèmes liés au climat et à la santé des enfants au niveau national.
Cette session fait partie du Forum sur le changement climatique et la santé, la deuxième série de webinaires 2022-2023 du groupe de travail sur la santé infantile (CHTF) sur le changement climatique et la santé des enfants. Cette session est organisée conjointement par le Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) Collaborative, le CHTF, Save the Children, Global Communities et l’UNICEF.
Photo caption: Lingo and her 4 children took refuge in the village school after heavy rains flooded her home. "What worries me most are the mosquitoes. We protect ourselves as best we can with mosquito nets, but I'm afraid my children will get sick, including my very young baby," says Lingo. In September 2024, the violent floods in the Gambella region of Ethiopia have affected more than 30,000 people and resulted in an alarming increase in the number of cases of malaria and diarrhoea, particularly among children.