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The Planetary Health Cluster spent the first week of October in Cork. Its five projects attended the WHO Summit of Mayors on Climate and Health on 5 and 6 October, ran two workshops for city and health practitioners, and stayed on for the cluster's annual meeting on 7 October. 

Tthe Planetary Health Cluster has joined the European Regional Hub of the Planetary Health Alliance and more than 80 organisations in the European Declaration on Heat and Health, calling on the EU to put health at the centre of its climate policy: with legally binding adaptation obligations, measurable health targets, and a European Heat-Health Action Plan with an emergency fund for hospitals, care homes, nurseries and schools.

This article introduces a new SPRINGS mapping that brings together cross-sectoral adaptation interventions, offering a foundation for more integrated climate-resilient health decision-making.

A new review highlights how nature-based solutions such as constructed wetlands, green infrastructure, and aquatic plants can remove up to 100% of microplastics from wastewater. The study explores the promise, challenges, and future potential of sustainable, ecosystem-based strategies for tackling one of today’s most pressing pollution threats.

Local stakeholders in Dagupan City joined Project TULIP’s human-centered design workshop to co-create community-based interventions addressing antimicrobial resistance, plastic pollution, and climate change. Through creative feedback, rapid prototyping, and prioritization activities, participants helped shape locally tailored solutions grounded in community needs and planetary health.

The Planetary Health Cluster organised its second Thematic Workshop bringing together the cluster’s projects’ modellers, researchers and policy specialists in Heidelberg for two days of dialogue to answer the question: how can data and modelling approaches best serve Planetary Health?