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The ENBEL project has developed a series of six short educational videos on climate change and health topics to give more information on how climate change effects our health and what we can do about it.

The conference Connecting Health & Climate Change #ENBEL2023 took place in Stockholm 11-12 October. Thanks to everyone who attended and made the conference such a success.

Climate change is the biggest health threat of the 21st century and its effects increasingly occur in Europe, too. Researchers, policy-makers and practitioners were gathered in Brussels 19 September to share evidence of health impacts of climate change and discuss the way forward for the European adaptation agenda.

Join us for a film screening and discussion of the film “Too Hot to Work”.

Join us at the 2nd CHANCE conference to take place in Botswana 25-26 August.

On 14 June ENBEL project partnered with the Ministry of Health in Kenya to train public health workers to measure and reduce carbon emissions in healthcare facilities.

The film “Too Hot To Work” takes viewers around the world on a tour of the current state of labor in extreme heat.

Finance for adaptation is not sufficiently targeting the countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis and falling short of needs in the health sector, indicates research from Climate Centre funded through the ENBEL project.

ENBEL releases a new film that showcases the effect of climate change on the occupational safety and health of manual laborers in Europe based on the work in the HEAT-SHIELD project.

How can co-design in climate change and health research be most successful? This policy brief provides key messages for research funders and future research projects in this field based on lessons learned from Climate, Environment and Health research projects funded by the Belmont Forum.

In order for health risks to be better integrated into adaptation policy and planning, it is critical to interconnect national and urban levels, reduce sectoral thinking and welcome external expertize and facilitate large-scale data collection and sharing of health and climate indicators, argues Annechien D. Hoeben et. al in a paper in Climate Policy.

ENBEL was present and organized two side-events at the WHO health pavilion at COP27 highlighting the climate change impacts on woman’s health and how to advance climate change and health agenda, policy and financing in Africa.

While air pollution from PM2.5-emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America, air pollution from wildfires is increasing. With climate change, we will see more wildfires, risking that the impacts of the efforts that have been made to mitigate air pollution and related negative health effects could be diminished.

A set of concrete recommendations to advance the climate and health agenda and to address climate-related health risks were identified by the participants in a climate and health workshop in Uganda co-organised by ENBEL-partner Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Ugandan Ministry of Health.

More capacity is needed to monitor health effects and inequities, evaluate adaptation and mitigation interventions, address current under-representations of low- or middle-income countries, and translate research into effective policymaking, argues researchers and public health experts.

A broad range of topics related to environment, climate and health were discussed when researchers, policymakers and practitioners met for the European Public Health conference recently. Our colleagues were there and share their reflections on how the topic of climate change and health featured at the conference.

Climate change is undermining every dimension of global health monitored, states the most recent Lancet Countdown report that is tracking the connection between health and climate change.

All around the world, human health is increasingly being impacted by global warming. In a new animation we highlight what our network of researchers and projects are working on to get more knowledge of how climate change impacts health and what evidence and knowledge is needed to tackle health risks associated with climate change.

The Climate Health African Network for Collaboration and Engagement (CHANCE), successfully conducted its first on-site meeting in Tswane, South Africa, 23-24 June gathering more than 60 onsite and more than 150 virtual attendees.

The recently published report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) paints a gloomy picture of what the future may hold regarding impacts of climate change. We have looked at some of the main findings regarding the core topics of the ENBEL project – health impacts related to environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires), and infectious diseases.

Health specialists at the Climate Centre are analysing flows of adaptation finance and looking at how much of this funding is used for local health programming. Preliminary results from our research on national commitments and funding streams provides an insight into the landscape of climate action.

ENBEL partner get 8 million USD in new funding from the US Government to improve workers’ health and safety in the face of climate change in Central America. 

How can projects working on heat and workers health, cardiopulmonary impacts of heat and air pollution, cascading climate risks and social vulnerability and community resilience find potential synergies and joint actions?

The ENBEL project is accepted as a member of the WHO-Civil Society Working Group to advance action on Climate and Health for the next two years.

The African continent is heating up more, and faster, than other regions in the world according to the recently released State of Climate in Africa Report.

ENBEL partner Norwegian Institute of Public Health interviewed Norwegian decision-makers at local and national level about how they work with adaptation to reduce the health effects of climate change. They found no clear connection between climate adaptation and health adaptation strategies in the surveyed Norwegian municipalities.

In this interview Isabel Proaño Gómez, Director of Policy and Communications, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) talks to Vlatka Matkovic from Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) about expectations for COP26. "The climate crisis is a health crisis and patients are among the most visible victims", says Proaño Gómez. As an outcome to COP26, she would like to see more investment into research, knowledge gathering and health-oriented responses to climate change. 

Climate change and health are two of the most pressing issues facing African countries. Thus, it is imperative that people engaged in climate or health issues work together. The newly established network for climate and health in Africa, CHANCE (Climate-Health Africa Network for Collaboration and Engagement), aims to facilitate interactions and create greater coherence between these often siloed communities of practice.

We had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Kiswendsida Guigma and ask him some pressing questions that were on my mind about heatwaves in Africa. We learned about heatwave impacts and why we often don't hear about heatwaves in Africa!

In an analysis of 15 climate change and health projects we identify areas for potential synergies between the projects. We find that the ENBEL project can add particular value in terms of synthesis of research findings, dissemination and knowledge mobilisation.

Climate change is already happening and we already see the negative health effects. One third of heat-related deaths can be attributed to climate change, according to a new study led by scientists that are EXHAUSTION partners.

What interventions may help to reduce the impact of heat stress on pregnant women, women who have given birth and their new-born babies? The CHAMNHA project engaged in co-design workshops with stakeholders in Kenya and Burkina Faso to co-create locally appropriate and feasible interventions.

The ENBEL project brings together 11 research projects focusing on heat-related health issues, opening up for range of joint activities in this critical area of research.

The webinar presented state-of-the-art knowledge on the health effects of global warming, with a particular focus on increasing temperature and heat stress in a European context, and discussed how alternative climate policy options and measures can help safeguard the health and wellbeing of citizens. The webinar was organised on 26 May 2021 under the lead of ENBEL coordinator Kristin Aunan from CICERO.

Air pollution and climate change both have an immediate adverse effect on reproductive, maternal and perinatal health outcomes, with the devastating potential to affect the health of future generations to come, writes researchers from the CHAMNHA project.

In light of summer 2021 approaching, in which we are still in a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent WHO report on evidence for heat and health prevention in Europe provides useful insights on how to adjust Heat health adaptation plans (HHAPs) to ensure an effective heat response.

Different indicators change in different ways, but climate models project a clear trend of increasing heat stress, according to a new scientific publication from the EXHAUSTION project.

Climate change is according to the WHO the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. By bringing together leaders in climate change and health research, this international project will contribute with knowledge and policy advice on climate change and health impacts.

2 December 2020 the 17 ENBEL partners and advisory board members present on four continents met for a digital kick off of the project.