Webinar - Deep dive: integrating health into NDCs

7 May 2025
WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland, and virtual

 

7th May 2025: 9:30 – 11:30 CEST and 15:00 – 17:00 CEST

Background

The climate crisis is a health crisis with widespread and growing impacts of climate change on health, health systems, and health-determining sectors. Given the health impacts of climate change, the many health co-benefits of climate mitigation and adaptation across sectors, and the need for climate resilient, low carbon health systems, health is now recognised as a priority in nationally determined contributions (NDCs). NDCs are one of the key national climate plans that 195 Parties (countries or territories) have agreed to produce, implement and update as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement and to report their progress to the UNFCCC. The long-term goal of these, and other climate plans, is to limit global warming to 1.5-2°C above pre-industrial levels and shape a future with net-zero emissions.

This webinar is a focused training session exploring the opportunities and processes for incorporating health in NDCs based on the WHO guidance Quality criteria for integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions (‎NDCs). The program includes presentations by a series of experts, the sharing of country experiences and a Q&A session.

Agenda

TimeAgenda item

9:30 – 9:35 / 15:00 – 15:05

Welcome and Housekeeping

9:35 – 9:45 / 15:05 – 15:15

Opening remarks

9:45 – 9:55 / 15:15 – 15:25 

UNDP Climate Promise

9:55 – 10:20 / 15:25 – 15:50

Healthy NDCs: Introduction to integrating health in NDCs

10:20 – 10:35 / 15:45 – 16:00

Tools for estimating health co-benefits of NDCs

10:35 – 10:50 / 16:00 – 16:15 

Estimating Loss and Damage to Health

10:50 – 11:00 / 16:15 – 16:25

Country experience: Integrating health in the NDCs

11:00 - 11:25 / 16:25 – 16:55 

Discussion/Q&A

11:25 – 11:30 / 16:55 – 17:00 

Close webinar

Downloads

Presentation [pdf]

AM session recording

PM session recording.