Reports

This report highlights the urgent need to address the health impacts of climate change, providing the most comprehensive analysis to date on global financing trends, which show a ten-fold increase in commitments since 2018 but reveal significant gaps in reaching low-income countries, while offering actionable recommendations to scale and optimize funding for climate-resilient health systems.

Launched at New York Climate Week 2024, this policy report outlines a three-step roadmap to help cities around the world more effectively plan for, and respond to, the global health emergency caused by climate change. These insights are informed by seven pioneering case studies of climate-informed health action at local, national, and global levels.

In this T20 Policy Brief, The Rockefeller Foundation, World Health Organization, Global Fund, Green Climate Fund, and COP28 Presidency lays out four policy recommendations to increase the scale, quality, equity, and impact of financing climate and health solutions. The brief was published ahead of the G20 Summit in September 2024.

3.8 billion people lack adequate access to electricity, limiting their opportunities. Closing the 8,700 terawatt-hour Green Power Gap by 2050 is essential to achieving global development and climate goals.

We’re assisting energy-poor countries grow through a mass deployment of renewable energy sources and a transition away from fossil fuels.

We’re working to promote food systems that bring nutrient-rich and regeneratively grown food to vulnerable populations.

We are working to tap new sources of capital for renewable energy while funding partners committed to global ecological restoration.

We wrapped up some of our biggest pandemic-related initiatives and turned to disease surveillance during a year of discovery and rededication.

The Zero Gap Fund (ZGF), in its fifth year, has committed $30 million across 12 investments, mobilizing $1.04 billion from partners to address global challenges in climate change, regenerative agriculture, financial inclusion, and essential services access.

This report chronicles The Rockefeller Foundation’s journey in 2023 to reimagine our work and learn from past successes and shortcomings, all with the goal of improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable and underserved populations.