Climate change is increasingly a health story. Yet there’s a need for much more journalism, public communication, and storytelling at the climate-health nexus.

This gap represents a missed opportunity for both public health and climate action.

With “Dynamic and Resilient Health Systems” among the COP31 presidency’s ten Action Agenda priorities, climate-health advocates are pursuing ambitious policy goals. Achieving meaningful change requires an ecosystem of actors, including independent journalists who investigate, contextualize, scrutinize, and bring developments into the public sphere.

From extreme heat and infectious disease to food insecurity and pressures on health systems, journalists illuminate climate-health impacts, investigate institutional claims, examine policies and solutions, and connect global issues to local experiences. Health experts and civil society organizations also use media and storytelling to make evidence accessible and build public support for climate action.

This event brings together journalists and communicators to explore how reporting and storytelling can strengthen public understanding, accountability, and policy change, and how climate-health stakeholders can constructively engage with this work.

Featuring journalists from the COP31 Climate Change Media Parternship reporting fellowship, which has supported hundreds of journalists from low- and middle-income countries covering United Nations climate summits, and others, the event connects COP31 stakeholders with journalists, media networks, and video creators telling the climate-health story.

Taking place at the COP31 Health Pavilion in the Blue Zone, this event will be organized in a hybrid format with limited in-person participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with live-streaming available on the Health Pavilion webpage and at https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2026/11/09/default-calendar/cop31-health-pavilion.