WHO Adopts County-Level Approach in Climate-Health Governance

The World Health Organization (WHO) has shifted its climate-health strategy, focusing on county-level governance. At Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, WHO introduced the first-ever "Living Laboratory" to test scalable climate-health solutions for the Global South. This approach aims to validate WHO's "Best Buys," interventions offering high climate-health co-benefits.

The conference involved participants from various UN agencies and institutions worldwide. The event sought to move from global commitments to practical, standardized local-level tools. Baoting's geographic and economic characteristics provided an ideal setting for testing WHO's model.

Local efforts in Baoting aim to build a climate-resilient health system, integrating modern and traditional medicine. The action plan includes deploying WHO's intervention schemes and creating a climate-health vulnerability monitoring network. This model could influence health governance in similar global settings.