Introduction - Robin Fears, Montira Pongsiri, Peter F. McGrath

Building on their previous expertise, in 2023, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and Save the Children initiated a project to identify and disseminate case stud- ies of health adaptation solutions in response to the diverse climate change pathways of risk from around the world. [...] 2023 for a recent update on safe and just Earth system boundaries) and climate change has the potential to increasingly disrupt health and wellbeing because, in addition to direct adverse effects on health, it affects the provision of food, safe water and clean air. [...] Addressing climate change and health together is appealing because of the potential win-win opportunities: achieving multiple bene- fits to human health and the climate (Frumkin and Haines, 2019). [...] The IAP work has helped to characterise how climate change is bringing se- rious threats to human health worldwide with the LMICs most vulnerable, and chil- dren and the elderly amongst the hardest hit and least protected within populations. [...] Climate and Health: Science-based policy solutions 21 INTRODUCTION Mobilisation of both existing and new research outputs can be enabled by: • Adopting a Planetary Health framework to encompass the health of human popu- lations and the state of natural systems on which human health depends (Whitmee et al.