Advocating for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health in the climate crisis Partner resources for COP28 and beyond

Maternal, newborn and child health

• Preterm Birth and Climate Change: Evidence from Born Too Soon report
• Extreme Heat and Maternal Health
• Born into the Climate Crisis: Why we must act now to secure children’s rights | Save the Children
• Climate crisis impact on MNH
• The Climate-Changed Child
• UNICEF’s Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative
• Healthy environments create healthy children (Video)
• The Coldest Year of the Rest of Our Lives: Protecting Children from the Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves
• Technical Note on Protecting Children from Heat Stress
• Breathless Beginnings: impact of air pollution in children in Europe and Central Asia
• UNICEF Air quality: it’s time to act

Sexual and reproductive health and rights

• Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments
• Child Marriage and Environmental Crises
• The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Climate Change in the Arab Region 2023 Review of Evidence and Pathways

Adolescent well-being

• Adolescent well-being and the climate crisis
• Adolescent wellbeing and climate crisis: adolescents are responding, what about health professionals?
• Adolescents have not been well served by responses to the pandemic and the climate crisis
• What Young People Want dashboard
• How climate change is shaping young people’s livelihoods and educational opportunities
• The health effects of climate change: experiences of young people in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Nigeria

Climate, health and health systems preparedness and response

• Review of Health in NDCs and long-term climate strategies
• Lancet Countdown 2023 Report
• Clean Air NDC Scorecards
• Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems

Financing

• Addressing the climate finance gap for children
• Financing intersectoral action for WCAH, with a focus on climate change

Livelihoods, human rights and equity

• Children, Adolescents, and Youth Pioneering a Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change
• Health and Loss and Damage
• Climate Change litigation: A guide for health professionals
• Children Displaced in a Changing Climate
• Every child has the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

• COP28 Presidency Schedule for Health Day and Relief, Recovery and Peace Day ​
• WCAH events at COP28
• Health at COP28 - ClimaHealth
• Hub for COP28 - on the PMNCH Digital Advocacy Hubs