WHO 2025 global survey finds funding gaps hinder national climate-health plans
WHO's 2025 global survey on climate change and health found that funding and capacity shortfalls were major barriers to national plans.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) runs periodic global surveys asking governments how they are responding to the health effects of climate change. The 2025 survey continued that series, gathering responses from health ministries on national strategies, monitoring and resources.
Its central finding was that countries have plans but struggle to carry them out. Limited funding and weak technical capacity were identified as the main obstacles to turning national climate and health strategies into action, particularly in lower-income countries.
The results mattered because they showed a gap between political commitment and delivery. Earlier WHO surveys, in 2019 and 2021, had reported similar problems, with many countries lacking money to fully implement their plans. The 2025 findings gave WHO evidence to press governments and donors to direct more climate finance to health, an argument it carried into later UN climate talks and into its call for concrete health measures at COP31.
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