In 2019, the World Health Organization identified air pollution and climate change as one of the top 10 threats to global health. Climbing average temperatures—heavily driven by unchecked environmental pollution—have led to a range of consequences, from rising sea levels to shifting weather patterns. As a result, countries and communities worldwide face serious, immediate, cascading threats to their health and wellbeing. From increases in extreme weather events like droughts and heat waves, to coastal flooding that leads to inundated cities and overwhelmed water and sanitation systems, to shifting infectious disease patterns, the impacts of climate change threaten to undermine decades of progress in improving health and strengthening health systems. And while these impacts are already being experienced—disproportionately so among the countries and communities contributing to them least—we are not without solutions.

Around the world, institutional and grassroots leaders are building a movement to mitigate these environmental and health impacts where we can, and adapt to a climate change future where we must. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the intersection of climate disruption and human health. The session will focus on a subset of critical, interconnected health effects as they are experienced around the world, and will highlight the ways leaders and organizations are collectively working to build resiliency.