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The Belém Health Action Plan
September 25 , 2025
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- India was not officially represented at the 2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health held in Brazil from July 29 to 31.
- The Belém Health Action Plan, to be launched at COP30 in November 2025, will define the global climate-health agenda.
- India’s developmental welfare programmes offer scalable models with climate and health co-benefits.
- The Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman scheme covers over 110 million children across nearly 1.1 million schools.
- It promotes millet and traditional grains to support nutrition and climate-resilient food systems.
- The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan improves sanitation, public health, human dignity, and environmental sustainability.
- The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act supports livelihoods and restores degraded ecosystems through environmental works.
- The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana enables a switch to clean cooking fuel, reducing household air pollution and carbon emissions.
- None of these schemes was designed as climate policy, but delivered health and climate co-benefits.
- A health-anchored climate governance framework is based on three institutional pillars.
- The first pillar is strategic political prioritisation by linking climate policy to immediate health needs.
- The second pillar is procedural integration through mandatory health impact assessments in all sectors.
- The third pillar is participatory implementation by involving communities using health as a driver.
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