The pro­ject is part of an mul­ti-coun­try stu­dy led by Geor­ge Mason Uni­ver­si­ty (GMU) that explo­res the con­nec­tions bet­ween cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es in dif­fe­rent count­ries. The stu­dy includes rese­arch from six countries/regions: Bra­zil, the Carib­be­an (cove­ring Anti­gua, the Baha­mas, Bar­ba­dos, Domi­ni­ca, Guya­na, Jamai­ca, and Tri­ni­dad), Ger­ma­ny, Kenya, the United King­dom, and the United Sta­tes. The goal of this glo­bal col­la­bo­ra­ti­on is to pro­vi­de actionable insights to enhan­ce cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es at both natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal level.

As part of this stu­dy, the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP) exami­nes the inte­gra­ti­on of cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es in Ger­ma­ny. The rese­arch focu­ses on how the­se poli­cy are­as inter­sect at the fede­ral, sta­te, and local levels of govern­ment, explo­ring both the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties of alig­ning them.

By high­light­ing syn­er­gies bet­ween cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es, the pro­ject aims to sup­port more ambi­tious cli­ma­te action while pro­mo­ting glo­bal health out­co­mes.

Pro­ject goals

The pro­ject aims to deepen the under­stan­ding of the inter­ac­tions bet­ween cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es and to iden­ti­fy insights that can inform poten­ti­al poli­cy mea­su­res. A key focus is on gene­ra­ting actionable know­ledge about the bar­riers, win­dows of oppor­tu­ni­ty, and stra­te­gies iden­ti­fied for poli­cy­ma­king.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, the goal is to deve­lop prac­ti­cal approa­ches for inte­gra­ting cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es, with the aim of pro­mo­ting both cli­ma­te pro­tec­tion and the well-being of popu­la­ti­ons.

Methods

As part of the pro­ject acti­vi­ties, 25 experts from the fields of cli­ma­te poli­cy, health poli­cy, or rela­ted are­as such as trans­port and nut­ri­ti­on were inter­view­ed – inclu­ding legis­la­ti­ve staff, govern­ment employees, think tank rese­ar­chers, aca­de­mic experts, and advo­ca­tes. Semi-struc­tu­red inter­views were con­duc­ted bet­ween April and July 2024, focu­sing on natio­nal sta­tus, bar­riers, oppor­tu­ni­ties, and stra­te­gies for inte­gra­ting cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es, and a qua­li­ta­ti­ve ana­ly­sis of the­se inter­views was con­duc­ted. This ana­ly­sis iden­ti­fied cri­ti­cal bar­riers and oppor­tu­ni­ties for effec­tively lin­king cli­ma­te and health poli­ci­es.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tio­nen und mate­ri­al

Pro­ject dura­ti­on

Sep­tem­ber 2023 — Decem­ber 2024

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