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- Title
Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems.
- Authors
Borghi, Josephine; Cuevas Garcia-Dorado, Soledad; Anton, Blanca; Gerardo, Domenico; Gasparri, Giulia; Hanson, Mark; Soucat, Agnès; Bustreo, Flavia; Langlois, Etienne V.
- Abstract
Climate change poses significant risks to health and health systems, with the greatest impacts in low- and middle-income countries - which are least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The Conference of Parties 28 at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference led to agreement on the need for holistic and equitable financing approaches to address the climate and health crisis. This paper provides an overview of existing climate finance mechanisms - that is, multilateral funds, voluntary market-based mechanisms, taxes, microlevies and adaptive social protection. We discuss these approaches' potential use to promote health, generate additional health sector resources and enhance health system sustainability and resilience, and also explore implementation challenges. We suggest that public health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers seize the opportunity to leverage climate funding for better health and sustainable, climate-resilient health systems. Emphasizing the wider benefits of investing in health for the economy can help prioritize health within climate finance initiatives. Meaningful progress will require the global community acknowledging the underlying political economy challenges that have so far limited the potential of climate finance to address health goals. To address these challenges, we need to restructure financing institutions to empower communities at the frontline of the climate and health crisis and ensure their needs are met. Efforts from global and national level stakeholders should focus on mobilizing a wide range of funding sources, prioritizing co-design and accessibility of financing arrangements. These stakeholders should also invest in rigorous monitoring and evaluation of initiatives to ensure relevant health and well-being outcomes are addressed.
- Subjects
MIDDLE-income countries; MEDICAL care use; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; POLICY sciences; NET losses; GREENHOUSE effect; ENDOWMENTS; CLIMATE change; CONFERENCES &; conventions; SUSTAINABILITY; ECONOMICS; TAXATION; FINANCIAL management; HEALTH care industry; GREENHOUSE gases; PUBLIC health; HEALTH promotion; NEEDS assessment; LOW-income countries; MEDICAL care costs; WELL-being
- Publication
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2024, Vol 102, Issue 5, p330
- ISSN
0042-9686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2471/BLT.23.290785