Forty-seven countries, including the United States, have committed to developing climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems. They announced their efforts during the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, also known as COP26.
“The future of health must be built on health systems that are resilient to the impacts of epidemics, pandemics and other emergencies, but also to the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events and the increasing burden of various diseases related to air pollution and our warming planet,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, WHO