Critical Gap: Less Than 1% of Climate Funding Allocated to Health Systems Despite Projected 15.6 Million Deaths by 2050

Nov 08, 2025 10:06 pm CST

A new report by Adelphi reveals that only 0.5% of multilateral climate funding has been directed toward adapting health systems to climate change since 2004, despite projections that climate change could cause up to 15.6 million deaths by 2050. With COP30 approaching, the report highlights an urgent need to bridge the gap between climate finance and health priorities, especially for vulnerable regions like South Asia, which receives no country-specific health adaptation funding despite facing 18% of projected climate-related health impacts.