Climate and Health: Science-based policy solutions

CLIMATE AND HEALTH:SCIENCE-BASED POLICY SOLUTIONS ©InterAcademy Partnership 2024 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of researchor private study, or criticism or review, no part of thispublication may be reproduced, stored, or transmittedin any form or by any means, without the prior permission,in writing, of the publisher, or in accordance with the termsof licenses issued by the appropriate reproduction rightsorganisation. Enquiries concerning reproduction outsidethe terms stated here should be sent to: The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)Strada Costiera 1134151, Trieste, Italyiap@twas.org EditingMez Packer and Peter McGrath DesignRado Jagodic, Studio Link ISBN ‘’“-““-‘•–’-“•‘-’ @IAPartnershipwww.linkedin.com/company/interacademypartnershiphttps://tinyurl.com/IAPyoutubewww.interacademies.orgiap@twas.orgsecretariat@iapartnership.org Climate and Health:Science-basedpolicy solutions Contents Bangladesh Community engagement to reducedengue transmission in DhakaUzzal Kumar Roy, Atikur Rahman and Nur-A-Safrina Rahman Bangladesh Benin Lessons from the formulation of a National Adaptation PlanHashim Hounkpatin Brazil Climate, air pollution and socioeconomic vulnerability:a research platform to implement policiesto improve environmental healthPaulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva Ethiopia Mapping the urban overheating hazardand its driving factors in Addis AbabaSeyoum Melese Eshetie Ghana Co-production methodologies to delivercity-level flood resilience and reduce healthinequalities in sub-Saharan AfricaBen C. Howard and Cynthia A. Awuni India The health benefits of response actionsto air pollution and extreme heat in AhmedabadVijay S. Limaye Malaysia A technology-based approach to predictingfire risk in tropical peatland and developinga transboundary haze alert systemAduwati Sali Malaysia The Urban Heat Island phenomenonand its impacts on vulnerable groupsMohd Norzikri Kamaruddin South Africa Using machine learning to map bioclimatic zonesand crop yields in water-scarce conditionsH. Mugiyo, V.G.P. Chimonyo, R. Kunz, M. Sibanda,L. Nhamo, C. Ramakgahlele Masemola, Tsitsi Bangira,A.T. Modi and T. Mabhaudhi South Africa Addressing heat-health threats among women,infants and children in primary healthcare settingsCaradee Y. Wright  Thailand The link between mental health and ecosystem healthin Indigenous farming communitiesVictoria Pratt  Lao, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri LankaSystems thinking to estimate the healthco-benefits of climate actionAndrea M. Bassi, Georg Pallaske, Marco Guzzetti and Nathalia Nino Sub-Saharan Africa Food security and resilience usinga small-scale funding modelClaudia Canales Holzeis, Robert Koebner, Sonia Morganand Edwin Mellor Southern Foreword Since its foundation in 1993, and especially since 2016 when three academy net-works were merged into the single InterAcademy Partnership, IAP has developeda track record of providing credible, independent science-based recommendationsto policymakers. From 2015, with the launch of a project on ‘Food and Nutrition Security and Agri-culture’ (FNSA), we have followed a methodology that includes regional reports onthe topic under consideration each prepared by one of the four IAP Regional Net-works (AASSA for Asia and Oceania, EASAC for Europe, IANAS for the Americas, andNASAC for Africa). Key findings from the four regional reports are then collated intoa global synthesis. This same methodology was used for IAP’s second major regional-to-global pro-ject, this time on ‘Climate Change and Health’ (CCH), which ran from 2019 to 2022,when the global synthesis1was launched. Just as the FNSA project gained tractionin international policy discussions – IAP and its Regional Networks were asked tocontribute to the UN Secretary General’s 2021 Food Systems Summit – so the IAPCCH project has helped raise awareness of the health co-benefits of tackling cli-mate change. Indeed, the co-chair of the project (with Volker ter Meulen, former IAPco-president, Germany) Sir Andrew Haines (London School of Hygiene & TropicalMedicine and co-Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Climate Change Health and Sustainable Development), has claimed that,at the start of the project governments were not aware of the strong interlinkagesbetween climate change and health. For the first time, at the 28th Conference of theParties (COP28) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that took placein Dubai in November and December 2023, there was a dedicated ‘Health Day’ thatfocused on this nexus. This new awareness can be partly attributed to the success ofthe IAP project, which had been presented at COP26 and COP27. Other organisations, too, have been urging action on this nexus – among themSave the Children (SC), which also in 2022 developed its organization-wide ‘Climateand Health Strategy: Accelerating action on climate with health benefits’2, whichtakes a multisectoral, systems-based approa