Overview
- Roughly 35 philanthropies formed the Climate and Health Funders Coalition with an initial $300 million to accelerate solutions on extreme heat, air pollution and climate‑sensitive diseases, including better integration of climate and health data.
- Participants include the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, IKEA Foundation and Wellcome, with additional funders joining the coalition.
- WHO and Brazil unveiled a special report alongside the Belém Health Action Plan at COP30, urging immediate, coordinated action and noting that one in 12 hospitals faces climate‑related shutdown risk.
- The report estimates that 3.3–3.6 billion people live in highly climate‑vulnerable areas and that extreme heat already causes more than 540,000 deaths annually.
- The Belém plan sets three workstreams—surveillance and monitoring, evidence‑based policies and capacity‑building, and innovation with digital health—and experts warn that adaptation finance needs of $310–365 billion a year for developing countries far exceed current commitments.