As the global community continues to grapple with the health impacts of climate change and increasingly frequent disasters, the future of resilient healthcare systems in SIDS depends on elevating the leadership of nurses and midwives. Recognizing their contributions, strengthening their capacity, and ensuring their visibility on the world stage are not only matters of equity; they are strategic imperatives for building sustainable, adaptive, and inclusive health systems in the face of an uncertain climate future.

This chapter most strongly aligns with SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) because it promotes sustainable agriculture, healthier diets, and environmentally responsible food systems.

This article offers a comprehensive review of how climate policies in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) interact with all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on SDG13 (Climate Action). It identifies a significant research gap, showing that only 5% of relevant studies focus on LDCs, and emphasizes the need for more inclusive, context-specific data and policy analysis. The authors propose a holistic resilience framework, combining infrastructural, institutional, and informational dimensions, to guide future climate policy that supports sustainable development across all SDGs.

The paper critically examines the assumption that access to electricity (SDG 7) inherently promotes gender equality (SDG 5). It finds that the gendered impacts of electricity access vary widely—sometimes empowering women, but other times reinforcing existing inequalities. To better understand these dynamics, the authors develop a new theoretical framework that merges:

Gender Studies insights on gender as performative, intersectional, and shaped by power relations.
Social Practice Theory, which explores how electricity gains meaning through its role in everyday practices.

This framework is applied to case studies in rural Guatemala (patriarchal) and rural Colombia (matrilineal), revealing how cultural context shapes outcomes. The paper also introduces an 8-step methodology for applying this framework in practice.
Ultimately, the study offers tools for designing context-sensitive energy policies that are more likely to advance gender equality.

This study reveals that climate risk creates virtuous feedback rather than a vicious cycle with agricultural carbon emissions, demonstrating that informed climate risk management can drive emission reductions in China's agricultural sector through technological progress and adaptive responses.

Kaiser Permanente became the first carbon-neutral healthcare system in the United States in 2020. The organization addressed climate change's health impacts, which cause approximately 150,000 deaths annually, while recognizing healthcare systems contribute 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Key initiatives included expanding solar programs to over 100 hospitals, achieving 6% energy efficiency improvements, and reducing water use by 22% . KP developed collaborative partnerships and sustainability scorecards for suppliers . Future goals target 50% emission reductions by 2030 and net zero by 2050. This case study demonstrates practical pathways for healthcare environmental stewardship

Given the climate crisis, all sectors must make choices that serve people and planet well into the future.

Pesticide residues in freshwater threaten water sustainability, but the global discrepancies in freshwater pesticide contamination remain uncertain.

This review examines how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IOT) improve thermal efficiency, enable real-time system monitoring, and support predictive maintenance across solar, wind, geothermal, and bioenergy applications.