Developing an Integrated Health, Environment and Climate Strategy for Your Company

Overview

Access to clean air and water, safe and nutritious food, and universal health coverage are essential for upholding fundamental human rights. And yet, 91% of the world’s population breathe polluted air, 2.1 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water, twice as many live without proper sanitation, and 2 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition. Businesses must take ambitious action to develop strategies that provide a health-promoting environment for employees, communities and consumers.

By completing this session and related learning materials, you will learn to:

  • Take a systems approach to understand the intersections between your company's impact on health, environment and climate

  • Set business strategies that target co-benefits between the three areas

  • Communicate the business case for addressing human health risks throughout your company’s value chain

  • Understand how breaking down silos and mapping out the interconnections between health, environment and climate can help your company reduce risk and increase efficiency

  •  Use logic models to develop strategies, choose environmental health indicators, develop indicator sets and set ambitious targets