WHO is Calling for Climate-health Proposals for the Ideas Lab 2025 Global Conference

The World Health Organization (WHO) is happy to ask proposals for its Ideas Lab, an open and participatory house designed to showcase revolutionary initiatives, stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue, and promote solution-oriented discussions at the intersection of local weather and well being.

The 2025 Global Conference on Health and Climate, to be held in Brasília from 29 to 31 July, will convey collectively stakeholders from throughout sectors to spotlight how bold and simply local weather actions—particularly at nationwide, subnational, and native ranges—can ship main well being co-benefits. The occasion helps the broader objectives of COP30, which can be hosted by Brazil in November 2025, and goals to make sure that well being and fairness are positioned at the heart of world local weather negotiations.

The Conference will lead to the launch and consolidation of the Belém Health Action Plan, a strategic doc outlining the position of the well being sector in advancing local weather resilience and fairness. To help this goal, a central element of the Conference can be the Ideas Lab: an open and participatory house designed to showcase revolutionary initiatives, stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue, and promote solution-oriented discussions at the intersection of local weather and well being. The Ideas Lab is meant to foster contributions that encourage motion, elevate underrepresented voices, and inform COP30’s Health Day and associated deliverables.

The full Terms of Reference might be accessed here.

Learn from the Official WHO Website

About the Lab

The Ideas Lab goals to create an interactive platform for sharing, discussing, and advancing revolutionary practices, analysis, and coverage concepts that contribute to climate-resilient and equitable well being techniques. Sessions ought to encourage cross-sector dialogue and spotlight concrete options which might be adaptable to numerous territorial and institutional contexts.

Specifically, the Ideas Lab will:

• Promote forward-looking and evidence-informed discussions on local weather and well being;
• Highlight revolutionary practices, together with native and Indigenous information, youth-led initiatives, and technological options;
• Foster dialogue amongst governments, civil society, academia, multilateral organizations, and personal sector actors;
• Generate inputs that contribute to the implementation of the Belém Health Action Plan;
• Feed into the well being discussions at COP30 and future nationwide and international climate-health methods.

Venue/Location

Guideline for Lab Sessions

• Each Ideas Lab session ought to convey ahead concrete and revolutionary experiences, instruments, and approaches that help local weather motion in the well being sector and past.
• Presentations might embody pilot initiatives, applied sciences, community-based methods, or institutional fashions that reveal actual or potential impression.
• Sessions must also discover rising and interdisciplinary traits—resembling the interconnections between local weather change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, diet, and sustainable meals techniques—particularly when framed below the One Health strategy.
• Contributors are inspired to current views that span native, nationwide, and international ranges and to include the voices of teams most affected by local weather change, together with Indigenous peoples, girls, youth, and well being employees.
• The Ideas Lab classes will foster equity-driven, evidence-based dialogue and contribute meaningfully to shaping the imaginative and prescient for the Health Day at COP30 and future coverage and funding methods.
• To guarantee alignment with the goals of the Global Conference, the Ideas Lab classes are inspired to discover subjects that mirror rising traits, revolutionary approaches, and cross-sectoral linkages inside the local weather and well being agenda. The full ToR might be accessed here.

Selection Criteria

The Ideas Lab will prioritize proposals and presenters that convey pragmatic approaches, innovation, and alignment with the objectives of the Global Conference. While participation can be by invitation, the choice course of will observe clear, merit-based standards to make sure transparency, variety, and impression. The number of Ideas Lab classes can be guided by the following standards:

• Practical Relevance and Potential for Impact: Proposals must be grounded in real-world experiences or practices—ongoing or accomplished—and reveal potential to generate significant change in the climate-health nexus. We will welcome options knowledgeable by lived realities, adaptable fashions, and examined improvements.
• Regional and Institutional Diversity: Efforts can be made to make sure geographic steadiness and illustration of numerous institutional actors—together with voices from low- and middle-income nations, subnational governments, and underrepresented areas.
• Innovation and Transformative Potential: Sessions ought to introduce forward-looking options, rising approaches, or replicable fashions that may help well being system adaptation to local weather change.
• Equity and Inclusion: Proposals that mirror gender fairness, youth participation, Indigenous and conventional information, or different types of neighborhood management can be extremely valued.
• Potential Contribution to COP30: Presentations that may instantly inform the growth of the well being discussions for COP30 will obtain explicit consideration.

The full Terms of Reference might be accessed here.

Application Deadline

Updated Timeline

• May 19 – June 10, 2025: Submission of proposals and supporting paperwork (open name for
  case research)
• June 10–20, 2025: Selection of classes and contributors, affirmation of audio system
• June 20–30, 2025: Final changes to content material and construction of classes and
• July 01, 2025: paperwork Publication of full Conference Agenda together with detailed Ideas Lab
  content material
• July 02–15, 2025: Final logistics, coordination with moderators, audiovisual content material
  prep
• July 29–31, 2025: Execution of Ideas Lab classes in Brasília
• August 01–15, 2025: Compilation and assessment of session summaries and supporting
  paperwork

How to Apply

Reporting and Coordination

Each session could have a moderator and rapporteur, accountable for:

• Guiding the dialogue
• Completing a standardized report template masking:
  o Innovative practices
  o Key takeaways and gaps
  o Personal tales and quotes
  o Strategic implications for COP30

These experiences will inform the ultimate Conference synthesis and can be shared as supporting
paperwork for the implementation of the Belém Health Action Plan at COP30

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