Healthcare in a Changing Climate 2025

Conclusion Governments and industry need to join forces now to mobilize global public health systems and unleash life sciences innovation to stay ahead of the advancing crisis. Such investment will save lives and prevent economic losses. A worldwide coordinated effort is needed to mitigate the health impacts of climate change, similar to the effort that enabled the global economy to move past the COVID-19 pandemic. The climate crisis will be slower to unfold, but even more deadly. Support should revolve around building a viable economic model for sustainable interventions that relies on multilateral financing mechanisms, with global public-private partnerships to fund the needed R&D and build the health infrastructure to disseminate treatment and care, while delivering an ambitious public education campaign. A coordinated response could significantly reduce negative health and economic consequences through strategic, consistent investment. It is possible to avoid almost half the health impacts and productivity losses projected to occur by 2050 in eight key climate-driven disease areas, along with 45% of deaths and 23% of healthcare costs. This could be achieved with approximately $65 billion of investment into innovative prevention, diagnostics and treatment over the next five to eight years. The only thing needed is the determination to get ahead of the problem.Investing $65 billion in prevention, diagnostics and treatment could avoid almost half the impact of climate change on deaths, health and productivity by 2050. Healthcare in a Changing Climate: Investing in Resilient Solutions 31