Climate Change and Health in Small Island Developing States

Overview

The initiative aims to provide national health authorities in SIDS with the political, technical and financial support, and the evidence to better understand and address the effects of climate change on health including those mediated via climate change impacts on the main determinants of health (e.g. food, air, water and sanitation, vectors); improve the climate-resilience and environmental sustainability of health services; and to promote the implementation of climate change mitigation actions by the most polluting sectors (e.g. transport, energy, food and agriculture) that maximize health co-benefits, both within and outside SIDS.