Environment-Health Nexus in the Asia-Pacific Region

The objective of this project is to reverse the current trends towards environmental degradation while reducing the vulnerability of regional populations to environment-related health impacts in the Asia-Pacific region.

Towards that objective, this initiative will aim toward increasing political commitment in the Asia-Pacific to strengthen both environmental and health policy via mainstreaming the environment-health nexus, as well as increasing uptake and capacity to operationalize the environment-health nexus in public policy in this region.

This work aims to target the barriers to engagement on nexus issues, and support UN Member States in taking an interdisciplinary approach to intergovernmental exchanges on the environment-health nexus.

We will collaborate in developing new policy products and knowledge tools on the environment-health nexus shaped to the Asia-Pacific context.

In addition, we will partner in, and inform, a high-level regional dialogue on the environment-health nexus in the Asia-Pacific region.

Uptake of health issues in non-health ministries through these knowledge and capacity building tools will serve to elevate health and wellbeing in intergovernmental decision- making, particularly to the desks of the negotiators making environmental decisions, at national, regional and global levels.