As part of the pro­ject “Klim­Ge­sund­Akt”, the Robert Koch Insti­tu­te (RKI)’s 2010 sta­tus report “Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health” was com­pre­hen­si­ve­ly revi­sed. In the new report, writ­ten by an inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry team of around 90 aut­hors, the curr­ent­ly available evi­dence on the impacts of cli­ma­te chan­ge on human health in Ger­ma­ny was syn­the­sis­ed, and cor­re­spon­ding recom­men­da­ti­ons for action were deve­lo­ped. The report was published in three issues of the Jour­nal of Health Moni­to­ring.

The com­pi­led evi­dence high­lights the urgent need for com­pre­hen­si­ve trans­for­ma­ti­on, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in urban are­as, to address cli­ma­te chan­ge and its health impacts.

Pro­ject Objec­ti­ves

On behalf of the Robert Koch Insti­tu­te (RKI), the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP) sup­port­ed the com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of the fin­dings from the RKI’s sta­tus report “Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health.” The aim was to dis­cuss the report’s impli­ca­ti­ons as well as good prac­ti­ce examp­les for miti­ga­ti­on and adapt­a­ti­on acti­vi­ties at the muni­ci­pal level.

Metho­do­lo­gy

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, CPHP, tog­e­ther with the Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health Coor­di­na­ti­on Office at the Robert Koch Insti­tu­te and the Fede­ral Cent­re for Health Edu­ca­ti­on (BZgA), orga­nis­ed three vir­tu­al expert dis­cus­sions:

1st Expert Dis­cus­sion on 14 Sep­tem­ber 2023:

• Heat, UV radia­ti­on, and extre­me wea­ther events

2nd Expert Dis­cus­sion on 19 Sep­tem­ber 2023:

• Air pol­lu­ti­on, aller­gens, and men­tal health

3rd Expert Dis­cus­sion on 28 Sep­tem­ber 2023:

• (Vector-)borne dise­a­ses

The­se ses­si­ons ser­ved as a plat­form to exch­an­ge expe­ri­en­ces and dis­cuss examp­les of good prac­ti­ce for desig­ning cli­ma­te-healt­hy muni­ci­pa­li­ties. The events tar­ge­ted decis­i­on-makers and repre­sen­ta­ti­ves from local admi­nis­tra­ti­ons.

Focus Area

Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on and mate­ri­als

Pro­ject dura­ti­on

April 2023 — Decem­ber 2023

Cont­act per­son

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