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Financing Climate-Health Solutions

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Overview

Countries are planning for the threat climate change poses to health, and finance — both domestic and international — must keep up to meet those needs. Averting climate disaster and fortifying health systems demands a rapid scale up of financing through coordinated mobilization of public and private funds at a scale never before seen. Diverse solutions, both within and outside the health sector, are required to protect health from climate impacts, necessitating coordinated and cross-sectoral finance. 

To meet this challenge, The Rockefeller Foundation is enhancing understanding and prioritization of climate and health, evaluating the bankability of health adaptation efforts, and improving understanding and capacity to access financing.

Why It Matters

Funding for climate and health can and should leverage co-benefits that enhance both climate and health, as well as their interconnected outcomes.
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    of adaptation funding and 0.5% of overall climate funding is dedicated to improving health outcomes, which is far from enough to prepare for the worst effects of climate on health

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    people live in ‘Red Zone’ countries, where the risk of a major hazard and/or disaster is high and access to finance is dwindling

Featured Content

  • Resourcing Climate and Health Priorities: A Mapping of International Finance Flows from 2018-2022
    This report highlights the urgent need to address the health impacts of climate change, providing the most comprehensive analysis to date on global financing trends, which show a ten-fold increase in commitments since 2018 but reveal significant gaps in reaching low-income countries, while offering actionable recommendations to scale and optimize funding for climate-resilient health systems.
  • Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions
    The Guiding Principles on Financing Climate and Health Solutions outline how governments, donors, and the private sector can work together to direct more effective, timely, and equitable finance toward climate and health solutions. The principles call for faster action, better support for the most affected countries and communities, simpler and fairer funding processes, and smarter investment in long-term, sustainable systems.
  • Climate Finance Vulnerability Index (CliF-VI)
    The Columbia Climate School’s new Climate Finance Vulnerability Index, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, maps 65 ‘Red Zone’ nations facing extreme climate and financial risks. With an interactive dashboard, the index offers a fresh way to connect climate vulnerability to real-world financing gaps — helping decision-makers better target resources.

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