A complex array of interrelated problems stemming from climate change and biodiversity loss create significant health risks. Participatory approaches, digital innovation and future scenario development with citizens and local authorities will be used to promote health and build capacity to solve problems at the community and city level. Global, European and national policies have emerged to address these challenges, emphasising mitigation, adaptation and resilience. In this context, the EU-funded GO GREEN NEXT project aims to deliver evidence-based policies and pilot projects in four European biogeographic regions, addressing the nexus between biodiversity, climate and planetary health. Specifically, it will use nature-based solutions and collaboration with global initiatives to reverse environmental degradation, particularly in urban areas vulnerable to climate change.

Through its activities, GoGreenNext will:

• Ensure sustainable planetary health policies which promote co-benefits to human health and the health of ecosystems are supported with strong evidence.
• Establish a collaborative transdisciplinary approach to research and innovation based on the synergies between public health, One Health and plantary health perspectives.
• Advance knowledge on earth natural systems and human health interactions by applying an integrated research approach to advance our understanding of future changes in the four pilot areas in relation to climate change, biodiversity and health.
• Develop and validate a range of novel tools for policymakers to enhance predictive capability and preparedness as well as to envision prevention strategies to deal with the impacts on human health of changes or degradation of ecosystem.
• Engage with citizens in the four urban pilot locations to gain an understanding of their readiness for behaviour change, and support their participation in decision-making and advocacy relating to thier future health, sustainable behavious and conservation of ecosystems, while accounting for gender, intersectionality and the challenges of diverse communities.
• Engage in communicaton, dissemination and exploitation to advance the proliferation of policy driven planetary health perspectives in the European and Global context.