Health and the Global Environmental Agenda 2021-2022: A Policy Guide

To develop and produce a health-environment nexus policy guide that outlines opportunities for global actors to engage with, and link environment and health issues across multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). This project will target national policy makers, including ministries of health, environment, and foreign affairs.

The guide will: identify key fora where health and environment issues overlap, provide summaries of relevant priority areas and important policy debates at the environment-health nexus within these fora focus on the following reference themes: social determinants of health, One Health, and Planetary Health including infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, mental health, and the climate and biosphere crises, and gender equity set out negative confluences in climate and health junctures provide input for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero to incorporate planetary health indicators into global financial assessment environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tools the guide seeks to provide meaningful, succinct, accessible, clear and targeted information to enable health, and environment experts to engage in and follow global processes at a high level, focusing on intersections where policy approaches could incorporate health and well-being issues.