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The climate-health crisis no longer lacks recognition. It lacks money.

Health is now firmly on the COP agenda, but Stefan Anderson reports that health still receives only a tiny share of climate finance — even as heat, air pollution, disease risks and infrastructure shocks

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Climate change is redrawing India’s disease map.

In Kashmir, Himachal & other hill states, warmer winters and shifting rainfall are helping malaria, dengue and chikungunya spread into regions once considered lower-risk.

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The @WHO's new Green Climate Fund accreditation could help unlock climate-health funding. But advocates warn the system is still too slow and complex for ministries facing urgent climate impacts.

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A new pandemic threat is not a question of if, but when.

Helen Clark, Victor Dzau, Joy Phumaphi and Shingai Machingaidze argue that UN Member States must act now to fix a fragmented pandemic monitoring system — before key global bodies close and critical gaps widen.

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