5.4.2Active indicatorEngagement by International Organisations
5.3Scientific engagement with health and climate change
5.4Political engagement with health and climate change
Indicator 5.4.2 · Engagement
Engagement by International Organisations
International organisations can shape global climate priorities, policy agendas, and public understanding of climate change and health. Communicating the health benefits of climate mitigation can help strengthen the case for climate action by showing how reducing emissions can also protect and improve health. This indicator tracks how often international organisations communicate these health co-benefits through their official X (formarly Twitter) accounts, a key mode of communication with journalists and the public.
Headline finding
The share of posts from international organisations mentioning the health benefits of climate action fell from 20.2% in 2024 to 14.4% in 2025, although it remained above the 10.8% recorded in 2016.
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Engagement by International Organisations
Total number and share of X posts from international organisations that referred to at least one co-benefit keyword, were classified as health co-benefits, or were classified as climate-related, from 2010 to 2025, by world, Human Development Index (HDI) group, World Health Organization (WHO) region, and Lancet Countdown region.
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Engagement by International Organisations
Number of X posts from international organisations, from 2010 to 2025, including all posts, posts matching at least one co-benefit keyword, posts classified as health co-benefits, and posts classified as climate-related. Results can be explored by organisation, field of work (such as development, disaster risk management, energy policy, environment policy, food and agriculture, global development banking, and health), and sector, including adaptation, mitigation, and adaptation and mitigation.
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About this indicator
Description
Natural language processing (a subfield of machine learning) is used here to track the uptake and engagement of health co-benefits in policy discourse on social media of major international organisations (IOs) involved in climate change adaptation and mitigation work. With the dataset of IO’s posts, a search through the text of each post was performed to identify if they discuss co-benefits. An indicator of engagement intensity was developed as a monthly proportion of posts containing at least one term from the search term list in relation to the total number of posts by that IO.
Authors
Dr Olga Gasparyan, Jorge A. Roa-Contreras, Prof Cathryn Tonne
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Caveats
This indicator works with a limited predefined set of international organisations, and search terms could be missing parts of co-benefits discussions. The organisations may strategically choose what to share on the platofrm, which could bias the analysis.
Data sources
- Extracted posts on X across 41 international organizations contains 32,915 unique posts.