Climate Action Delivering for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: Gaps and Opportunities

By The CHAMNA Project and High Horizons, LSHTM, UNFPA, WHO, Amref Health Africa and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) 

This session will focus on the impact of climate change on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) addressing research approaches, findings and policy implications of a series of studies focusing on climate change and health and advocate solutions. It will be in a panel format with a high-level opening. This event led by UNFPA and co-hosted with the WHO, Amref Health Africa, IDRC, CHAMNHA and HIGH Horizons consortia, aims to unpack these challenges and concrete, locally-led solutions that could be scaled as well as make contributions to the health outcomes of the COP28. The event will also set out the priority steps needed towards developing national adaptation programmes to safeguard pregnant and postpartum women, newborns and children in the anthropogenic era. The discussions sparked by this session are to paint the bigger picture of the needs for a community centered and gender transformative approach to climate action in health systems.