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The Lancet calls climate change the greatest global health threat, and opportunity, of the 21st century. This newsletter seeks to build a repository of stories to deepen understanding of this critical duality.

Newsletter · By Taran Deol · Official site

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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    The disaster that is heat (opens the original)

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    Heatwaves are deadlier than hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods. Yet there is a crucial distinction in how they are viewed. Most countries treat heatwaves as something other than disasters in the formal policy sense. India is a recent outlier to this categorization approach.Following recommendations by the 16th Finance Commission, India <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/india-updates-disaster-list-to-include-heatwaves

  2. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    August Round-Up (opens the original)

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    Extreme HeatIndia unlocks disaster risk funds for heatwaves, NatureCategorizing heatwaves as a notifiable disaster will help states access the full spectrum of disaster relief funding, paving the way to develop a resilience playbook for the world from a country where every fourth person is exposed to extreme heat.‘The heat took him from me’:

  3. Issue · Jul 31, 2026

    July Round-Up (opens the original)

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    Climate-health governance is long on commitments, short on funding and structural integrationNew Report Finds Global Security Hinges on Climate Action, Health Investment and Peacebuilding, Global Climate & Health AllianceThe report argues that shifting investment from climate and health to the military will not deliver security, calling instead for sustained investment in climate-resilie

  4. Issue · Jul 17, 2026

    Politics and science of measuring climate adaptation (opens the original)

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    Climate negotiators’ meeting this June failed to agree on one question: how should the world measure whether countries are actually adapting to climate change? The 64th meeting of the UN climate convention’s Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) was meant to launch a two-year process to translate the recently adopted Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) framework into a system for tracking and reporting countries’ progress. Instead, negotiations stalled over a familiar fault line: developing countries wanted to d

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