COP31: Advancing Health and Climate Outcomes through Cross-Sector Collaboration

The links between climate and health create unique opportunities to advance outcomes in climate change mitigation, adaptation and development across sectors. Through cross-sectoral collaboration, countries can maximize the health co-benefits of climate action while building more resilient, sustainable communities and health systems. With dynamic and resilient health systems serving as one of ten interconnected priorities of the COP31 Action Agenda and clear connections between health and the other Action Agenda priorities, this “Implementation COP” presents a key opportunity to ensure cross-sectoral collaboration is driving health-centered implementation.  

Through a rapid-fire question-and-answer panel, this event will bring together NDC Partnership members and other leading experts to share lessons learned, showcase country-led progress and identify opportunities to drive cross-sectoral collaboration on health and climate outcomes and move from planning to implementation. Some questions will require panelists to use handheld whiteboards to vote or provide one-word answers, allowing experts to navigate complex questions with “radical brevity” before opening the debate.