The health case for scaling quality adaptation finance and integrating agendas

The document highlights a significant financing gap for climate-resilient health systems, noting that adaptation finance for developing countries fell to US$26 billion in 2023. It argues that climate and health financing currently operate in siloes, with fewer than half of costed National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) quantifying health adaptation estimates. The briefing recommends increasing grant-based public finance, integrating health strengthening into climate frameworks, and expanding fiscal space through debt relief and fossil fuel subsidy reform.

• Climate change impacts multiple sectors such as housing, water, sanitation, and agriculture, which increases the burden of disease and injury on health systems. Approximately 3.6 billion people globally live in climate-vulnerable settings and face health risks including malnutrition, heat stress, mental health impacts, and infectious diseases like cholera and malaria.
• There is a substantial gap in adaptation financing; developing countries require between US$310 billion and US$365 billion annually for adaptation. In 2023, only US$26 billion in adaptation finance was provided to developing countries, representing a decline from 2022-2023.
• Africa specifically requires between US$7 billion and US$15 billion to strengthen its climate-resilient health systems.
• Financing for health and climate adaptation is fragmented and siloed. Less than 50% of costed NDCs and NAPs provide quantified estimates for health adaptation, and health strategies often lack resilience indicators, budget tagging, or adaptation costing.
• Integrated approaches have been implemented in specific countries: Mozambique created a National Health Adaptation Plan to Climate Change using cross-ministerial coordination, and Bangladesh linked climate resilience to a network of over 13,000 community clinics via its National Adaptation Programme of Action.

APA

Global Climate and Health Alliance (n.d.). The health case for scaling quality adaptation finance and integrating agendas. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Briefing-SB64-Financing-climate-resilient-health-systems_-1.pdf

Chicago

Global Climate and Health Alliance. The health case for scaling quality adaptation finance and integrating agendas. n.d. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Briefing-SB64-Financing-climate-resilient-health-systems_-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalclimateandhealthalliancendhealth, author = {{Global Climate and Health Alliance}}, title = {{The health case for scaling quality adaptation finance and integrating agendas}}, institution = {Global Climate and Health Alliance}, url = {https://climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Briefing-SB64-Financing-climate-resilient-health-systems_-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }