WHO is now a Green Climate Fund accredited entity

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🗞️ Driving the news: The World Health Organization has been accredited as an implementing partner of the Green Climate Fund, enabling the global health body to access climate finance to support projects addressing the health impacts of climate change

🔭 The context: The Green Climate Fund was created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to channel funding toward climate mitigation and adaptation projects in developing countries
• With accreditation, WHO can now directly support climate-health initiatives, working with national health ministries and partners to design and implement climate-resilient health systems

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: Climate change is increasingly recognized as a major public health threat, contributing to heat-related illnesses, air pollution impacts, infectious disease spread, and food insecurity
• Yet the health sector has historically received only a small share of climate finance, limiting its ability to prepare for climate-related health risks

⏭️ What’s next: WHO plans to mobilize climate funding for projects that strengthen climate-resilient health infrastructure, reduce emissions within health systems, and expand climate-health programs in low- and middle-income countries through initiatives such as the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH)

💬 One quote: “Climate financing will ensure that the health sector is prepared to meet the demands of the climate crisis without contributing further emissions,” - WHO official Dr. Ruediger Krech.

📈 One stat: Only 0.5% of multilateral climate funding currently goes to the health sector

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