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Environment, Climate Change and Health

We pursue a healthier environment by strengthening health sector leadership, building mechanisms for political and social support and monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals regarding environmental threats to health.

About us

Our teams

Air Quality, Energy and Health

Chemical Safety and Health

Children’s environmental health

Climate Change and Health

Healthy urban environments

Occupational health

Radiation and health

Water Sanitation and Health (WASH)

Highlight

29 – 31 July 2025

2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health

Technical information

Settings & populations

News

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Speech

13 December 2024

WHO Director-General's statement at the International Court of Justice - Responding to the Climate Change Health Crisis - 13 December 2024

Features

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Air pollution: The invisible health threat

Events

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29 July 2025 12:00 – 13:30 CET

7th GEHM report launch: Strengthening health systems for migrant and displaced populations in the context of climate change

29 – 31 July 2025

2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health

25 July 2025 16:30 – 17:30 CET

A spotlight on Paris - a dialogue with Mayor Anne Hidalgo on promoting health, clean air, and climate resilience

Commentaries

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For centuries we have plundered our planet. Now we are paying the price

Our strategy

WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change: the transformation needed to improve lives and wellbeing sustainably through healthy environments

The new strategy is timely – it responds to and is in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the GPW13.

Calls for

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Call for proposals

Call for proposals for COP30 Supporting Documents on climate and health (closed)

Call for proposals

Call for climate-health proposals for the Ideas Lab (closed)

Publications

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The synergies of heat stress and air pollution and its health impacts

Projections indicate that climate change will result in more frequent and intense extreme weather events in the coming decades. Among these, an increase...

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Climate change, air pollution, pollen and health

Air pollution and climate change together worsen the health impacts of allergens like pollen and airborne biological particles, leading to increased inflammatory...

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Transboundary cooperation for our shared air: protecting public health

A variety of global, regional, and transboundary initiatives have been established to support cooperation on air quality management, offering a strong...

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Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 finds that almost 92% of the world’s population now has basic access to electricity. Although this...

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Videos

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Safeguard yourself from the heat

Safeguard yourself from the heat

Symptoms of heat-related illnesses

Symptoms of heat-related illnesses

#KeepCool in the heat: Outside

#KeepCool in the heat: At home

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Main Heat Vulnerability Factors

Heat waves

SunSmart Global UV App can be used to help protect yourself when you are outside

SunSmart Global UV App can be used to help protect yourself when you are outside

Help others who suffer from heat

During a heatwave, help others who suffer from the heat

Tools

AIDE-MÉMOIRES: Briefs by environment, climate change and health topic for country action

Essential information to support action

Air pollution and health training toolkit for health workers (APHT)

A set of materials designed to enable health workers, in both the clinical and public health fields, to understand the health risks of air pollution and identify risk reduction measures.

Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment

Global repository of interventions for creating healthier environments and improving health. It provides an overview and easy access of 500 actions, and a framework for thinking about health and environment interventions.

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Health and environment country scorecards

The Health and environment scorecards aim to provide a quick snapshot of where countries stand on managing six major environmental threats to health: air pollution, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), climate change, exposure to chemicals, radiation, and occupational health.

HEAT tool for walking and cycling

Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling: HEAT for walking and cycling is a user-friendly, web-based tool used to estimate the health and economic impacts of increased walking and cycling.

Doctors attend to patients in the COVID-19 ICU of the Philippine General Hospital in Manila. They are among the first Filipinos to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country

Occupational hazards in the health sector

This e-tool is intended for use by people in charge of occupational health and safety for health workers at the national, subnational and facility levels and for health workers who want to know what WHO and ILO recommend for the protection of their health and safety

SunSmart Global UV App

Free application for mobile devices that describes the level of solar UV radiation at a specific location. It also provides time slots when to apply sun protection measures, in an effort to reduce the global burden of skin cancer and UV-related eye damage.

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WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury

The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates quantify the number of deaths and amount of health loss (disability-adjusted life years or DALYs) caused by occupational risk factors.

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WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19

WHO prescriptions for a healthy, green recovery from COVID-19 that will help steer governments towards a healthier, fairer, and greener world.

Our work

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Promoting biodiversity conservation for climate and health

Raising awareness on ultraviolet radiation

Boosting climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services

Building capacity on climate change and human health

Campaigns and initiaves

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Flagship Initiative against extreme heat and related environmental health risks in workplaces and major events

BreatheLife: A global campaign for clean air

International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2024

WHO – WMO Joint Climate and Health Programme

Q&As

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Heatwaves: How to stay cool

Air pollution: Reducing short-lived climate pollutants

Health-impact-assessment (HIA) and its role in decision making

Air pollution: Personal interventions and risk communication

WHO’s Fifth WHO Air Quality Database of over 6000 Cities

Fact sheets

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Sand and dust storms

24 October 2024

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution

16 October 2024

Household air pollution

Electricity in health-care facilities

Facts in pictures

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13 September 2024

Children's environmental health

E-waste and Child Health

Urban Health Initiative: Accra story

5 February 2021

Cholera

Health topics

Physical environment

Air pollution

Physical environment

Chemical safety

Physical environment

Children's environmental health

Climate change

Physical environment

Environmental health

Health interventions

Health impact assessment

Physical environment

Occupational health

Physical environment

Radiation

Radiation emergencies

Physical environment

Ultraviolet radiation

Socio-political determinants

Urban health

Physical environment

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Wildfires