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Human health has always been influenced by climate and weather. Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, threatens human health and well-being in numerous ways. Global warming also referred to as climate change is the observed rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system.1 According to the statistical reports, it is clearly evident that the prevalence of global warming is increasing average temperatures of the earth's atmosphere and oceans, largely driven by human activities such as fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and industrial processes. It is therefore important that we create opportunities to educate the future generation so that they are enable for taking appropriate preventive measures following energy saving practices. Quantitative approach was used to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding global warming and its effect on health among higher secondary students at a selected higher secondary school, at Jamshedpur Jharkhand. A pre experimental study with one group pre-test and one group post-test design was used. Non- probability convenience sampling technique was used to select 60 higher secondary students. Data collection was done using structured knowledge questionnaire. Study concluded that the pre-test knowledge of higher secondary students on global warming and its effect on health was low as the mean score obtained by the subject was 15.73 with standard deviation 3.17. On analysis of the results of the posttest knowledge of higher secondary students on global warming and its effect on health, the mean score obtained by the subject was 23.48 with calculated 't' value 22.9 which was higher than the table value 2.02 with 59 df at 0.05 level of significance. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme showed significant improvement in the understanding of higher secondary students on global warming and its effect on health.