ENBEL briefing: Health-focused climate finance for local adaptation
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Adaptation that will reduce the health impacts of climate change needs financial support. In its briefing, ENBEL, a European project aimed at connecting health and climate change research, identifies that allocation of adaptation finance to the health sector is low in contrast to what is needed to ensure climate-resilient health systems and support countries to implement Health National Adaptation Plans (HNAPs). Important barriers include limited information on funding opportunities, little coordination between actors within the health sector and between the health and climate change community, and limited capacity to develop proposals for funding.
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 Jul 27 2023 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 04 2024