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Adaptation strategies are being implemented across Europe to strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change. The European Commission’s NextGenerationEU Covid-19 Recovery Fund includes among others funding and support for climate change adaptation and resilience strategies. In its policy brief, ENBEL, a European project aimed at connecting health and climate change research, warns that current commitments in the EU Member State Covid-19 Recovery Plans addressing climate change adaptation and health system resilience are unlikely to improve adaptation to protect human health. This is a result of limited alignment of health system resilience with climate adaptation objectives and co-benefits of climate actions for health. Still, ENBEL sees many learning opportunities from the Covid-19 pandemic for climate and health policies.

ENBEL's policy briefs can be consulted at their 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 4, 2024

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