CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND POWERING HEALTHCARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

The report examines the 'double threat' of climate change to healthcare energy infrastructure: the physical disruption of energy supply and the increased demand for energy to treat climate-related health issues. Using data from Kenya, India, and Barbados, it identifies a wide range of resilience solutions—including decentralized clean energy, energy-efficient appliances, and grid hardening—while noting that adoption is currently limited by financial, regulatory, and technical barriers.

• Climate change creates a dual pressure on healthcare energy infrastructure by physically damaging energy sources and increasing the demand for energy to power indoor cooling and emergency services.
• In Kenya, approximately 64 percent of public healthcare facilities (910 facilities) are at high or very high risk of water scarcity, drought, heatwaves, and/or floods.
• In India, approximately 19 percent of public healthcare facilities (36,446 facilities) are at high or very high risk of drought, flood, and/or cyclone, while about 3 percent are at high or very high risk of heatwaves.
• All 15 healthcare facilities in Barbados are considered at high or very high risk of flood and storm, with 50 percent also at risk of sea level rise.
• Resilience solutions for healthcare energy are categorized into five types: grid-supplied electricity measures, decentralized clean energy sources, on-site energy system protections, energy-efficient technologies, and energy planning and operations.
• The adoption of resilience solutions is limited across the study countries due to barriers including high upfront capital costs, limited facility-level management capacity, and a lack of climate risk integration in infrastructure programs.
• The report identifies three high-impact, low-cost resilience solutions—energy efficient fans, solar direct drive (SDD) vaccine refrigerators, and cool roofs—that could be proactively promoted.
• The total investment required to implement these three specific solutions across all eligible facilities in Kenya, India, and Barbados is estimated at USD 5.8 million, USD 54 million, and USD 0.2 million, respectively.

APA

Gogoi, E., Luthra, R., Vaish, S., Prakash, S., Gautam, M. S., Ene, K., Okodoi, N., & Arya, S. K. (2025). CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND POWERING HEALTHCARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. Sustainable Energy for All. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2025-02/SEforALL-phc-climate-resilience-study.pdf

Chicago

Gogoi, Elizabeth, Rajni Luthra, Saumya Vaish, Sanya Prakash, Madhu Sudan Gautam, Kennethe Ene, Nancy Okodoi, and Sunit Kumar Arya. CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND POWERING HEALTHCARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. Sustainable Energy for All, 2025. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2025-02/SEforALL-phc-climate-resilience-study.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gogoi2025climate, author = {Gogoi, Elizabeth and Luthra, Rajni and Vaish, Saumya and Prakash, Sanya and Gautam, Madhu Sudan and Ene, Kennethe and Okodoi, Nancy and Arya, Sunit Kumar}, title = {{CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND POWERING HEALTHCARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH}}, institution = {Sustainable Energy for All}, year = {2025}, month = feb, url = {https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2025-02/SEforALL-phc-climate-resilience-study.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }