Building tomorrow’s healthcare: financing, resilience and replicable infrastructure models

Healthcare systems face a dual challenge: the growing impacts of climate change and infrastructure ill-prepared for extreme weather, energy shocks, and supply disruptions. Hospitals are both vulnerable and significant emitters—responsible for 4.4% of global emissions—making resilient, low-carbon infrastructure essential for protecting public health and meeting climate goals.

At the 2025 World Health Assembly, leaders stressed the urgent need to link climate action and healthcare by rethinking infrastructure. The message was clear: future healthcare facilities should be climate-resilient, reduce emissions, and be easy to replicate. This moment offers the healthcare sector a chance to tap into global climate funding, rethink how facilities are designed, and roll out models that can scale rapidly.

This webinar contributes to initiatives aiming at bridging the gap between strategy and implementation in developing tomorrow’s healthcare infrastructure. It will showcase guidance, recommendations, tools and concrete examples of action.

Key takeaways:

• Designing facilities with resilience, emissions reduction, and nature-based solutions in mind.
• Identifying priority actions for financing through development banks and climate funds to reinforce climate resilience
• Learning about practical tools, methodologies, and real-world examples adaptable to different contexts.
• Encouraging collaboration on the challenges and opportunities of adapting healthcare infrastructures to face the planetary emergency.

📆 Thursday 13 novembre 2025 | 13:00-14:30 CEST

💻 Online on Zoom

🇬🇧 Language: The webinar will be conducted in English and translated simultaneously into French via a Zoom plug-in

Welcome address

• Isabelle Brun, Sector Policy and Partnerships Advisor, Technical Assessment & Monitoring Directorate, Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)

Speakers

• Vera Siesjö, Senior One Health Scientist, Economics Department, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
• Serge Ntwari, Construction Project Manager, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Closing remarks

• Agnès Soucat, Director of Health and Social Protection, French Development Agency (AFD)

Moderation

• Professor Karl Blanchet, Director of the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

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