ENBEL briefing: Role of Covid recovery for climate change resilience in Europe

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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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