Key Insights | Climate–Health Governance in South and Southeast Asia

South and Southeast Asia are among the most climate-sensitive regions in the world, facing some of the greatest projected losses in health, lives, and livelihoods. Countries in the region experience a convergence of dense populations, rapid urbanisation, resource constraints, uneven governance capacity, and high exposure to extreme weather events. These factors make them central to the global climate–health conversation and highlight the need for coordinated, multisectoral responses.

This paper reviews climate–health governance across 10 countries—Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam—to understand how countries are responding to the complex and growing effects of climate change on health.