The 2023 Latin America report of the

In 2023, a series of climatological and political events unfolded, partly driving forward the global climate and health agenda while simultaneously exposing important disparities and vulnerabilities to climate-related events. On the policy front, a significant step forward was marked by the inaugural Health Day at COP28, acknowledging the profound impacts of climate change on health. However, the first-ever Global Stocktake showed an important gap between the current progress and the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, underscoring the urgent need for further and decisive action. From a Latin American perspective, some questions arise: How do we achieve the change that is needed? How to address the vulnerabilities to climate change in a region with long-standing social inequities? How do we promote intersectoral collaboration to face a complex problem such as climate change? The debate is still ongoing, and in many instances, it is just starting. The renamed regional centre

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YKPS, LBV, CLl, MW, and MR were supported by the Wellcome Trust (209734/Z/17/Z), CLl and LBV are also supported by Regional GEOhealth Hub Centered In Peru GRANT11785319. MW and MR were supported by Horizon Europe program through the project IDAlert (https://idalertproject.eu) with grant no. 101057554 and UK Research and Innovation project reference no. 10056533. IDAlert is part of the EU climate change and health cluster. MR was supported by CATALYSE, providing salary support. Project 101057131. NM was supported by the Wellcome Trust's Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) project (209387/Z/17/Z) and MFS by the Brandt Endowment in Environmental Communication at Michigan State University during the conduct of the study. AGL is sponsored by Emerge, the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Research Training grant D43 TW007393 awarded by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health. LEE was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K01AI168452. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. DB is a staff member of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The author alone is responsible for the views expressed in this publication, and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of PAHO. FC is a technical assessor of the Ministry of Health of Argentina, and he alone is responsible for the views expressed in this publication, and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the Ministry of Health. All other authors declare no competing interests.