Transforming Systems for Climate & Health Workshop Series
The Transforming Systems for Climate & Health initiative and the Commission on Reimagining Systems for a Healthier Climate Future will host a series of information-gathering workshops to explore what principles should guide a health-centered approach to systems transformation toward net-zero emissions, what are the structural levers that drive transformative change across sectors and systems, and in what ways can systems transformation be pursued differently across geographic contexts while maintaining shared goals for health and climate resilience.
Meetings and Materials
Explore the learnings from each workshop held in 2025. The insights gathered though these workshops will inform a straw framework that lays the foundation for the initiative’s next phase in 2026.
The “How” of Systems Transformation: Strategies and Levers for Health-Centered Climate Action
July 25, 2025, August 5 – 6, 2025
Across three parts and days, the workshop aimed to:
- Identify the structural levers most critical to accelerating health-centered climate action and understand how these levers interact to drive systems transformation.
- Examine the enabling conditions that shape the feasibility and impact of these levers across diverse country and sectoral contexts.
- Distill real-world strategies and actions that have successfully mobilized these levers, highlighting what made them effective, who played critical roles, and under what conditions they gained traction.
- Surface critical barriers, trade-offs, synergies, and tipping points that shape the path to systems transformation, and distill actionable, cross-sector strategies that enable decision-makers to navigate complexity, align interests, and drive scalable impact.
Recording
The “What” of Systems Transformation: Anchoring Climate Action in Health
April 29 & 30, 2025
Spanning two days, this workshop:
- Reframed climate action through a health-focused lens, examining opportunities and challenges for leveraging health as a strategic anchor point to bridge diverse economic and geopolitical interests
- Illustrated the need for systems transformation by identifying the global economic sectors driving climate change—including energy, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing, among others—and exploring pathways to net-zero emissions that also maximize health co-benefits
- Explored the economic, political, and social systems shaping sector-specific and cross-sector responses to climate change, and identified the policy, governance, and behavioral shifts required to align economic and sustainability goals with improved health outcomes
