Environment, Climate Change and Health
We pursue a healthier environment by strengthening health sector leadership, building mechanisms for political and social support and monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals regarding environmental threats to health.
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All →Our strategy
9 February 2020
WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change: the transformation...
The new strategy is timely – it responds to and is in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the GPW13.
Publications
All →Air quality indexes (AQIs) are widely used to communicate short-term air pollution concentrations and related health risks to the public. Conventional...
The GLAAS 2025 report, State of systems for drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: global update 2025, and Key findings of the report were launched...
26 January 2026
GLAAS 2025 report key findings
This summary presents the key findings from the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2025 report, which features...
The GLAAS 2025 report, State of systems for drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: global update 2025, and Key findings of the report were...