ENBEL briefing: Climate services for heat-health protection
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Extreme heat affects health and wellbeing. In this policy brief, ENBEL, a European project aimed at connecting health and climate change research, explains how climate services developed in partnerships between national weather agencies and the health sector can protect populations from heatwaves and manage health services better. Climate services, including heat-health warning systems, can contribute to our understanding of how and when extreme weather events affect health systems and populations, assist in climate-related risk management and help reduce heat-related illnesses and mortality if they (i) are developed in conjunction with users of the services, (ii) are accompanied by public health measures, (iii) are available to everyone, including individuals who may be socially disadvantaged.
The policy briefs can be consulted at ENBEL's website.
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The ENBEL project supports EU policy making by bringing together leaders in climate change and health research through a network of major international health and climate research projects under the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA), Societal Challenge 1 and 5 of EU’s Horizon 2020, and other national and international funding schemes. This network develops evidence syntheses and co-produces with stakeholders a series of tailor-made knowledge products. The key thematic focus is on environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires) and climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with specific attention given to high-risk groups and populations.
Published in Climate-ADAPT Feb 19 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 04 2024