The latest film from the ENBEL Project highlights the impact that the consortium has had in connecting climate and health research with policymaking.
Since 2020 the ENBEL project has succeeded in bringing together 17 partner institutions and bolstering 12 research projects, generating knowledge that has spurred actionable change in the policymaking of businesses and governments worldwide.
The film comes at the heels of the close of the ENBEL project. It ran from November 2020 to January 2024. The project was funded by the Horizon 2020 program, which was the European Union’s research and innovation program.
ENBEL’s purpose was to direct the efforts of research on the health impacts of climate change to creating actionable change among policy circles.
La Isla Network CEO Jason Glaser said, “ENBEL demonstrated what we know about the intersection of climate change and human health, but more importantly it pointed the way forward so we better understand what policies are needed to both better understand emerging risks and improve adaptation for those most impacted by a changing climate.”
Kristin Aunan, ENBEL coordinator and research director at CICERO Center for International Climate Research, said, “The purpose of ENBEL has been to bring together researchers from many different climate change and health research projects to enhance the impact of those individual projects on policymaking to help shape low-carbon climate resilient societies.
“Systematic use of science is needed to design and test adaptation policies that address also the most vulnerable and hard to reach groups. Unfortunately, data that enables research that helps understanding and preventing health risks is lacking in many regions of the world.
“There is a need for government authorities to provide guidance regarding the integration of health in climate policies. This is needed not the least to ensure adaptation and mitigation action go hand-in-hand and co-benefits across measures are harvested.
“ENBEL has first and foremost contributed to making links between climate scientists and health researchers. Enhanced collaboration between these communities is needed to provide integrated and evidence-based policy advice for mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health.”
As the ENBEL project closes, the European Commission is holding a high-level conference on “Research Perspectives on the Health Impacts of Climate Change” in Brussels in February. Several partners and researchers from ENBEL and its network of projects will take part as speakers, panelists and moderators and present research from the project in poster sessions contributing with input to the EU on knowledge gaps and research needs for future EU funding priorities. For more information about that conference, click here.
La Isla Network was a proud member of ENBEL and looks forward to future work with partners. We especially valued our colleagues at CICERO who managed the project and worked tirelessly to make sure findings and insights found the necessary ears and eyes. We hope to work with CICERO on an ENBEL 2.0 in the future.
CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Norway is a world-leading institute for interdisciplinary climate research established in 1990. The institute delivers high-quality research and knowledge that help society respond to the climate challenge and strengthen international climate cooperation.
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