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There are clear warnings that the climate crisis is also an impending health emergency. Climate change is already having an impact on people’s health and health systems, both directly and indirectly. More frequent and intense extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wildfires, floods and landslides, as well as food and water safety and security threats and the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, are all expected to generate serious health risks and amplify existing health problems.

To understand, anticipate and minimise the health threats caused by climate change, the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, together with other key players in the field, have set up the new European Climate and Health Observatory.

Based on a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, it aims to co-create, connect, pool and provide the knowledge, expertise and tools required to tackle the health challenges related to climate change.

The new observatory is also the very first concrete deliverable of the new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change, which was published on 24 February 2021. It supports the EU Green Deal aspiration to ‘protect the health and wellbeing of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts’. It will help improve the preparedness of health systems and coordination of health crises, which are core elements of the Commission’s proposal for a European Health Union. The launch of the observatory also reflects recommendations made by the Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.

• Launch event of the European Climate and Health Observatory (programme and registration)
• Portal of the European Climate and Health Observatory
• New EU strategy on adaptation to climate change
• European Health Union
• Scientific opinion of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors ‘Adaptation to health effects of climate change in Europe’