Protecting health in a changing climate - Wilton Park conference

The proposal is for a Wilton Park event that would lay the foundation to improve the quality and quantity of finance, partnerships and other resources to support developing country partners to develop and deliver plans to protect and human health in the face of climate change. This event will focus on resource mobilisation for actions promoted in the Belém Action Plan for Climate Change Adaptation in the Health Sector. It would help build consensus on the top actions required to: a) ensure health systems are resilient to climate change; b) build resilience and address vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change from outside the health sector. The event will also identify concrete opportunities and barriers for mobilising resources and make recommendations to unlock and synergise domestic and international resources and private finance to coherently implement country plans. The aim is for the discussions and networking opportunities to lead to partnerships and financing options that maximise synergies, flow and impact of resources and reduces burdens. This would be with a view to secure future agreements, for example, to new ways of working at country level, and/or to develop and publish climate and health strategies.