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2 | 27 November | 14:00-14:45 | Youth Solutions for Health and Climate in preparation for COP28 | COY18, Expo City, Dubai | YOUNGO | Health and climate change are closely intertwined challenges that demand proactive engagement, especially from youth, who are the torchbearers of our future. Recognizing the essential role of youth in shaping climate-resilient healthcare and aligning with the preparation for COP28, this interactive panel discussion aims to emphasize capacity building and innovative solutions. We will explore how youth can actively contribute to addressing the health aspects of COP28. | ||
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4 | 30 November | 13:00-14:00 | Unbearable heat and unbreathable air – finding win–win solutions for climate and health | Watch | SDG Pavilion | WHO, Health Policy Watch | The event will explain how extreme heat and polluted air, are the most direct outcomes of climate change and its drivers on health, and suggest win–win solutions, arguing for greater inclusion of health in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agenda. | |
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6 | 1 December | 9:00-10:30 | Climate Resilient Health Systems (Roundtable) | | Health Care Without Harm | This high-level roundtable will analyze what’s needed to create health system resilience and discuss solutions to bridge the gaps, including cross-sector action, policy, and financial investment. Featuring Dr. Vanessa Kerry, World Health Organization Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health. Shweta Narayan, International Climate and Health Campaigner for Health Care Without Harm, is attending. | ||
7 | 1 December | 10.30-11.45 | The impact of Climate Change on Health Systems and Funding in the Indo-Pacific region | Watch | Monash Pavilion | Monash University | The impacts of climate change on human health and healthcare systems are inextricably linked. As the direct and indirect physical and mental health impacts of climate change on human health grow, there are increasing demands on health services and government budgets to tackle health inequity. Climate and Health is a complex challenge that requires strong collaboration between governments, multilaterals, corporates, academia and civil society organisations to embark in mission-oriented initiatives that drive innovative solutions. Speakers: Rebekah Brown - Deputy Vice Chancellor Research, Monash University Rachel Huxley - Head of Mitigation, Climate and Health, Wellcome Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum - Head of Cliamte Change and Health, WHO Helga Flores Trejo - VP and Global Head of International and Multilateral Affairs, Bayer, AG Tony Capon - Director, Monash Sustaimabl Development Unit Gabriela Fernando - Assistant Professor in Public Health, Monash University, Indonesia Federico Marcon - Deputy Director Development, Monash University | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
8 | 1 December | 10:45-12:00 | New NUS Initiatives on Climate and Health: Boosting Resilience of People and Healthcare Systems in a Changing Climate | Singapore Pavilion | NUS | Climate change is not just an environmental problem. Over the past year, climate-induced wildfires, floods and heatwaves all over the world have affected human health and wellbeing, and weakened the ability of healthcare systems in disaster zones to respond to the crisis. To boost the capacity of the healthcare sector in dealing with the compounding risks of climate change and biodiversity loss, the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) medical faculty is launching a series of initiatives to contribute to the growing body of research on the links between climate change and health. Meanwhile, a Southeast Asian node of the Global Heat Health Information Network, a global consortium of scientists and policy makers, will be set up under the auspices of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. The new node aims to scale up efforts in the region to manage the complex human health risks introduced by extreme and increasing ambient heat. | https://www.cop-pavilion.gov.sg/ | |
9 | 1 December | 11:15-12:30 | The climate crisis is a health crisis: uniting to galvanise action towards solutions for climate adaptation. | Watch | Health Pavilion | Seed Global Health | We need urgent, collective, and bold action to identify and scale adaptation measures to address the impacts of climate change on health to help those countries most impacted become resilient to the realities of the climate crisis. Otherwise, we face unprecedented humanitarian and economic consequences. The solution starts with long-term and transformative investments in health systems – and importantly the health workforce needed to deliver that care. The event will raise awareness of the intersection of climate change and health, showcase the evidence base and highlight the needs, barriers, and best practices to scale adaptation measures to address the impacts of climate change on health. In this discussion we will hear first-hand from those on the frontline of climate change and health efforts, leaders and key decision makers. Its purpose is to move discussions beyond talk into tangible action, through presenting concrete strategies and solutions which tackle issues at the nexus of climate and health. Speakers: Dr. Vanessa Kerry, CEO of Seed Global Health, WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health Vanina Laurent-Ledru, DG, Foundation S Dr Maria Neira - Director of the Department of Public Health and Environment at WHO H.E. Awa Coll Seck – Minister of State Senegal Tamer Rabie – Health Lead, World Bank Peter Sands – CEO, The Global Fund Anda Nyondo – Country Director Malawi Seed Global health Runa Khan - CEO Friendship NGO in Bangladesh | |
10 | 1 December | 13:00-14:45 | When Climate is a Health Story: From Local to Global, How Climate Journalism Can Elevate the Health Story at the Heart of the Climate Crisis | https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/11/30/default-calendar/cop28-health-pavilion | Health Pavilion | Internews, EARTH Journalism Network, Stanley Center for Peace and Security | Climate is a complex big-picture story—the most significant crisis confronting the planet. Journalists have been conveying the essence of the science, informing the public about the importance of mitigation policy, and outlining adaptation and resilience strategies to their audiences for decades. Now, there is a growing awareness that the climate crisis is a health crisis and a pressing need for corresponding policy responses and equitable solutions. Speakers: - Ana Carolina Amaral - Specialist writer for Folha de S. Paulo, Executive member of the Brazilian Environmental Journalism Network, and journalism fellow at Internews and Wellcome Trust - Chiamaka Okafor - Senior journalist for Premium Times, Nigeria, recently completed a six-month fellowship with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, and currently a Climate Change Media Partnership and Earth Journalism Network fellow - Joydeep Gupta - Manager for India and media trainers for Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, editor-at-large for The Third Pole - Alice Bell - Head of Policy, Climate, and Health at Wellcome Trust, PhD in Science Communication - Moderated by Ida Jooste, Internews’ Senior Health Media Adviser and award-winning journalist based in South Africa | |
11 | 1 December | 14:30-15:30 | The Case for Action on Black Carbon: avoiding climate tipping points, building resilience and delivering clean air | Cryosphere Pavillion | Clean Air Fund; Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy | The lack of action on black carbon represents a huge, missed opportunity for mitigating near-term warming and avoiding climate tipping points, particularly in cryosphere regions. This side event will discuss opportunities to resolve bottlenecks preventing work on black carbon, alongside the launch of a report and announcement of a funding commitment to the issue. | ||
12 | 1 December | 14:45-16:15 | Creative Workshop Envisioning a Fossil-Free Future: Health, Relief, Recovery, and Peace at the Center | Commonwealth Pavilion | YOUNGO | This high-level creative workshop, hosted by YOUNGO Health WG, Generation Climate Europe, CYPAN, and CYHRDN, will invite participants to engage in a visionary exercise. Together, we'll imagine a world where fossil fuels are no longer part of our reality, and health, relief, recovery, and peace are actively prioritised. This imaginative space fosters discussions and creative thinking about future possibilities. By placing youth at the centre of this vision, we aim to align our collective efforts with the Commonwealth's commitment to sustainable and resilient communities. Through this workshop, we envision a future where the health and well-being of people and the planet are at the forefront of global priorities. | ||
13 | 1 December | 15:00-16:14 | Governance for Health Equity and Climate Change | Brazil Pavilion | Ministry of Health, Brazil | Climate change, a global phenomenon, exacerbates inequalities, impacting vulnerable communities with heightened levels of poverty, diseases, malnutrition, and conflicts. The proposed meeting aims to delve into how the Brazilian Government comprehensively addresses climate change and climate justice across various levels and sectors. We will explore the intersection of climate change, health, and global inequities, focusing on Indigenous Peoples, Urban Periphery Residents, Low-Income Communities, and considerations of Gender, Age, Migration Status, and Homelessness. The goal is to facilitate a discussion on sustainable solutions to climate change, leveraging the unique perspectives and traditional knowledge of these communities. | ||
14 | 1 December | 15:15-16:30 | Tackling the maternal and reproductive health harms of fossil fuels and petrochemicals | Watch | Health Pavilion | Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB), Amazon Watch, Centre for Biological Diversity, Human Rights Watch, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network, WE DO | The health benefits of climate action for maternal and reproductive health begin with a fast, fair, and equitable fossil fuel phase out. Worldwide, the increased risk of maternal and reproductive health harm from exposure to fossil fuel and petrochemical operations has been well-documented, though, like most health harms experienced by women, receives inadequate attention from policy makers, health care providers, researchers, and advocates. Increased risks of preterm birth, low-weight birth, miscarriage, and early infant death have been documented among people living near or working in oil and gas production sites, petrochemical plants, oil refineries and power plants burning fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is the primary contributor to air pollution–which contributed to 6 million preterm births and almost 3 million low-birth-weight babies in 2019 and an estimated 20% of newborn deaths worldwide in 2020– and the climate crisis, with grave and wide-ranging impacts on pregnant people and reproductive health. Economic systems tied to fossil fuel dependence drive increased militarism and a mounting toll on women and people’s reproductive health. A fair and fast phase out of fossil fuels and related petrochemicals and plastics (derived from fossil fuels) to a less extractive and exploitative economic model will reduce exposure and support maternal health and reproductive justice. | |
15 | 1 December | 17:00-18:00 | Young children, cities and a changing climate: an interdisciplinary consultation to co-design the Children, Cities and Climate (CCC) Action Lab | Greening Education Hub | Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Development Authority, LSHTM, CCC Action Lab | The Children, Cities and Climate Action Lab is hosting three live workshops at COP28, which invite young people and policy-makers to co-design an agenda for improving cities to be healthier and more sustainable. This specific education pavilion event will aim to collate insights into how changing urban climates are affecting the youngest in society, and how this can inform the work of the Children, Cities and Climate Action Lab, a multi-partner collaborative based at LSHTM, which has recently been funded to work on these areas in the coming years. | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/cop28-side-events-children-cities-and-climate-action-lab-workshops | |
16 | 1 December | 17:00-18:15 | Anticipatory action for climate-induced emergencies- Bridging gaps in humanitarian response | Watch | Health Pavilion | Anticipation Hub, MSF | Humanitarian organizations witness and respond to the consequences of climate change across the world. The health and humanitarian impacts of climate change will worsen as weather becomes less predictable and climate shocks more extreme. In a nutshell, humanitarian actors should expect cascading health impacts of more frequent and severe extreme weather events; shifting geographical patterns of climate-sensitive infectious diseases; detrimental impacts on food systems, resulting in increased risks of undernutrition and malnutrition. This will result in much higher health needs than humanitarians are currently responding to, or are able to respond to, today. One way to address some of these risks is through anticipatory action. Anticipatory action links pre-agreed triggers to action plans and financing. While most anticipatory action initiatives have to date focused on extreme climate and weather events, there are increasing opportunities to look beyond these and act ahead of other hazards such as disease outbreaks. In this session we will explore the potential of anticipatory action, including for infectious diseases, such as for cholera and malaria outbreaks. Based on the experiences of humanitarian actors, it will explore what is needed to bring this approach to scale. It seeks to identify where and how humanitarian, climate and health actors can come together to adapt health, humanitarian and disaster response systems to the changing reality of climate change. | |
17 | 1 December | 19:30-20:30 | Networking event for climate and health stakeholders | Canada Pavilion | Health Canada | This event promises to be an excellent opportunity to highlight and celebrate Canada's domestic and international leadership on climate and health issues, as well as provide the space and opportunity for climate and health stakeholders to discuss common priorities in protecting health from the impacts of climate change. The event will feature welcoming remarks by Health Canada, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. RSVP by contacting CCIB-BCCI.International@hc-sc.gc.ca. | ||
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19 | 2 December | 9.00-11.00 | WCAS Health Presidency session | WCAS Theatre | COP28 | This event will elevate the political profile of climate-health and demonstrate tangible political and financial commitments to support health response to climate change | ||
20 | 2 December | 9:30-10:45 | Inspiring urgent climate action: generating and communicating evidence on climate and health | Watch | Health Pavilion | Wellcome Trust, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication | The Wellcome Trust, in collaboration with George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (GMU 4C), is hosting a conversation on communication and engagement strategies for inspiring urgent climate action. As a complement to the growing body of research on climate and health, this event will discuss how effective communication and advocacy strategies can assist different stakeholder groups in their efforts to drive health-informed climate action and build public and political will to implement necessary evidence-driven solutions. This event will bring together stakeholders across research and advocacy communities to discuss how effective communication about climate and health can advance our shared ambitions to mitigate worsening effects of a warmer climate and adapt human health and health systems to cope. The panel will include senior experts working at the intersections of climate change, public health, international development, and policy with first-hand experience of using scientific evidence to drive health-informed climate action. | |
21 | 2 December | 10:30-11:30 | Voices from the ground: Building Climate Resilient Health Systems through Locally-Led Action | Watch | Resilience Hub | Abt Associates, South South North, Health Systems Global (LSHTM), WaterAid | This session highlights the ways in which community-level activities - from health system strengthening, resilience, locally-led adaptation, as well as examples of indigenous and community-led interventions - have created opportunities to improve health systems resilience. The session concludes with key takeaways and way forward for embedding community-led actions and principles, prioritising programming principles to build climate resilient health systems, as well as implications for governance, national policies, and planning/management strategies. | https://giggabox.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/resilience-hub-2023/eventinfo/Agenda/AgendaItemDetail?id=d0ea4a4c-263a-4527-b6c4-08e02931ec37 |
22 | 2 December | 11:00-12:00 | Leaders' Event: Putting Health at the Center of the Climate Agenda | https://www.youtube.com/@COP28UAEOfficial/featured | Al Waha Theatre | COP28 Presidency | The latest IPCC report highlights that climate change is a grave threat to human well-being and planetary health. Cross-sectoral action to address the health benefits of climate action including reducing emissions and transforming health systems can yield immense health benefits. The WCAS Health Event on 2 December will galvanize public and private sector momentum for climate and health. The session will see the launch of the COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health, mobilizing political support around shared priorities on the climate health nexus. The event will also deliver a set of climate-health financing initiatives that will unlock billions to safeguard and invest in health in a changing climate. This breakthrough moment will lay the foundation for strengthening the health response to climate change, including at future COPs and in the World Health Assembly. | |
23 | 2 December | 11:15-12:30 | Child survival at the centre of the climate crisis | Watch | Health Pavilion | Save the Children, IFRC | The panel will take a deeper dive into the changing landscape and approach of health programming to respond to the catastrophic effects of climate crisis on child survival. It will bring focus on changing disease epidemiology due to climate change and its impact child survival, and response needed from different health constituencies like governments, CSOs, academia, UN organizations, global financing mechanisms, youth-led groups, private sector, and healthcare professional. The panel will discuss and deliberate on the needs for universal as well as targeted approaches to primary health care, water and sanitation, newborn and maternal health, essential child health interventions, and nutrition programming to make them future ready and proactively mitigate impact of climate change on child survival, rather than a reactive approach to an escalating crisis. | |
24 | 2 December | 11:30-12:30 | Climate Change: Impact on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) – the case of Heat Stress | Watch | EU-ILO Just Transition Pavillion | EU, ILO Office in Qatar, EU-OSHA | This event is expected to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences on the impact of heat stress on workers, present and future mitigation measures, as well as challenges and opportunities for the design and implementation of heat stress mitigation approaches. It will present the lessons learned from the implementation of relevant legislation in the recent years, and explore ways to expand protections for the affected workers. For instance, in the context of “The Impact of Climate Change and Heatwaves on OSH”, EU-OSHA presented in May 2023 a guide on OSH and heat stress that provides practical guidance on how to manage the risks associated with working in heat and information on what to do if a worker begins to suffer from a heat-related illness or health problem. It is a follow-up of the International Conference on Occupational Heat Stress: “Implementation of Practices, Sharing of Experiences”, held last May 2023 in Doha (Qatar). | |
25 | 2 December | 12.30-13.15 | Health co-benefits of climate change action: a fireside chat with Jonathan Patz | Watch | Monash Pavilion | Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University | Join a conversation about climate change and health, focusing particularly on the huge potential benefits for health of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Speakers/hosts: Jonathan Patz - Vilas Distinguished Professor & John P Holton Chair of Health and the Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison Angie Bone - Associate Professor (Practice), Planetary Health, Monash Sustainable Development Institute (Moderator) | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
26 | 2 December | 12:30-14:30 | Pandemic Action Network MENA Working Group Meeting | Marriot Palm Jumeirah | The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), Pandemic Action Network | On the sideline of COP 28, the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) and the Pandemic Action Network (PAN) seek to welcome members of our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Working Group (WG) to the UAE and meet in person for the first time for the opportunity to discuss our shared agenda going into COP28 and beyond into 2024, followed by informal networking. The MENA Working Group comprises a diverse and dedicated team of members, including governmental bodies, national research institutes, regional development banks, impact funds, international foundations, key multilateral agencies, and CSO network. This is an invitation only event | ||
27 | 2 December | 13.30-14.30 | Health at the COP28 negotiations with a Small Island Developing State lens | Watch | Monash Pavilion | World Health Organization, WPRO | In 2017, WHO launched a Special Initiative on Climate Change and Health in Small Island Developing States at the COP23 of the UNFCCC in Bonn, in collaboration with UNFCCC and the Fijian Presidency of the COP23. Now at COP28 five years later, there is an opportunity to take stock of the progress on reducing the health risks of climate change and building resilient and environmentally sustainable health systems. In many ways, Pacific island states have been leading the way on climate change and health actions, but gaps in implementation persist. There is a need for continued dialogue to share lessons, challenges, and best practices to support accelerated and effective implementation. The panel will discuss and reflect on three topics: (1) Importance of health in the climate change debate; (2) Loss and Damage and the role of health; (3) Accessing and utilizing climate finance for health. Speakers: Hon. Dr Ratu Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu Minister of Health Fiji Hon. Dr John Still Tari Qetu Minister of Health Vanuatu Lily Tangisia Faavae PS Tuvalu Dr Sally Edwards, Coordinator Health and the Environment, WHO WPRO Akeem Ali, Head Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health, WHO Prof Tony Capon, Director Monash Sustainable Development Institute (moderator) | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
28 | 2 December | 13:30-14:45 | Digital Public Goods for Understanding & Addressing Climate Impacts on Health | Watch | Health Pavilion | Wellcome Trust | This event, organized by The Wellcome Trust, will feature presentations and a panel of experts who will share critical new ideas on how Digital Public Goods can be leveraged to understand and address climate impacts on health. The objectives of the session are: To spotlight the scale at which many DPGs have already been implemented by countries to support the digital transformation of health systems and draw links to the immediate opportunities for understanding climate impacts by leveraging this pre-existing infrastructure. To galvanize the multilateral funder community to recognize the critical role of funding this foundational data infrastructure. To platform countries that have already begun to think about how they can use their digital public health infrastructure in this way, and their early reflections. | |
29 | 2 December | 13:45-14:30 | Breathe Cities: Leading Action for Clean Air | Bloomberg Local Action Summit | Clean Air Fund; Bloomberg Philanthropies; C40 Cities. | This event will announce the new cohort of cities taking part in the Breathe Cities initiative. It will also emphasize the urgent need to tackle urban air pollution and the benefits that cleaner air brings to health and climate. The event will demonstrate city leadership in tackling air pollution & inspire mayors and city leaders to join Breathe Cities and/or take more ambitious action | ||
30 | 2 December | 14:15-15:15 | Advancing global research on climate change and health: lessons learnt and ways forward | Watch | Health Pavilion | WHO, GCHA, DHSC, Adaptation Research Alliance | This event will set up a discussion across senior political and research leaders on how to shift the global climate research agenda towards climate and health research which supports stronger health outcomes and more climate resilient and sustainable health systems. It will present an overview of the current state of research on health and climate change, map out the main trends and gaps in existing studies, and outline a global research agenda on building climate resilient health systems. Taking place at the COP28 Health Pavilion in the Blue Zone, this event will be organized in a hybrid format - with limited in-person participation on the first-come, first-serve basis and live-streaming available on the Health Pavilion webpage. | |
31 | 2 December | 14:15-15:15 | 2023 State of Climate Services for Health: Main findings and Way forward | Watch | WMO / IPCC Pavilion | WMO | This hybrid event will build upon the key findings of the 2023 State of Climate Services for Health report and discuss how to advance climate services to address climate and health challenges. The panel will discuss ideas for how to effect the transformational change in institutional development and multisectoral integration, which is necessary to protect health from climate change, variability and extreme weather events through the use of climate science and services. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cop28-side-event-2023-state-of-climate-services-for-health-tickets-759689490717?aff=oddtdtcreator |
32 | 2 December | 16:45-18:15 | Climate and health: How can policy address health impacts of climate change and air pollution? | Watch | SE Room 6 | CICERO Center for International Climate Research, InterAcademy Partnership, Save the Children, GERICS | Climate change is having an increasingly negative impact on many aspects of human health. Recent research also shows that there is an interactive effect between heatwaves and air pollution, again with negative health consequences. Taking action on climate change can improve public health, but this requires systems-based studies and multi-sectoral collaboration to develop and implement policies. This session will highlight co-benefits of action on climate for health and resilience. Global South and North experts will share how adaptation and mitigation policies can benefit society, including vulnerable groups. | https://www.exhaustion.eu/resources/cop28-climate-and-health-how-can-policy-address-health-impacts-of-climate-change-and-air-pollution |
33 | 2 December | 17:00-18:00 | Political action for AMR and environment on the road to the UNGA High-Level Meeting on AMR in 2024 | Watch | Food Pavilion | Global Leaders Group on AMR | The session will bring high-level attention to AMR and the need to transform agrifood systems to optimize animal, plant and environmental health, ensure responsible and sustainable use of antimicrobials and most importantly, reduce the need to use antimicrobials and promote innovation for evidence-based and sustainable alternatives. The dialogues will contribute to a better understanding of the coordinated multisectoral global action needed to prevent and respond to the converging threats of AMR and the climate crisis. The critical area of financing mechanisms will also be addressed, including exploring innovative solutions for the AMR and climate crises. Discussions and statements will contribute to the ongoing dialogue regarding key areas of consideration for the political declaration of the UNGA HLM on AMR in 2024, among Ministers of Agriculture, Environment, Health and other high-level government officials attending the COP28. | |
34 | 2 December | 17:45-21:00 | Pan-African Ministerial Dinner: Building consensus among African Health Ministers on unified approach and stance in COP 28 submissions and negotiations. | Marriot Palm Jumeirah | AMREF, WHO Regional Office for Africa, African Union, Africa CDC, The Global Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, Wellcome Trust | We are seeking to engage African Ministers to forge a common narrative on health and climate in Africa, to lobby support by environment ministers to advance the health agenda towards the mainstream of climate negotiations, and to seek the support of donor partners towards accelerated action on climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience building. It is against this backdrop that the WHO Regional Offices for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, the Africa CDC, and Amref Health Africa, with the support of the Wellcome Trust, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Global Fund are mounting three Africa-focused events on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th December as part of the Health Day programme for Africa. | ||
35 | 2 December | 19:30-21:30 | Climate & Health: Celebrating The First COP Health Day | Nando's Marina Walk, Dubai | The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), Goodbye Malaria, The Global Fund, RBM Partnership to End Malaria, Business Alliance Against Malaria, Private Sector Constituency | On the sidelines of COP 28 and the eve of the first Health Day at a UNFCCC conference, partners across business, government, policy, civil society, and philanthropy will gather to celebrate and hear about some of the hopes and priorities for the upcoming year on climate and health. This is an invitation only event | ||
36 | 3 December: COP28 Health Day Health Day will host the first climate-health ministerial to build consensus on priority actions for the health system’s response to climate change, paired with financing commitments for implementation. | |||||||
37 | 3 December: Health Day | 8:30-9:30 | Regional Approaches to Climate-Health: US Leadership at home and abroad | Watch | U.S. Center | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of State | Climate impacts on human health are regionally distinct. This panel will examine how the United States approaches climate-health a) within regions of the United States and b) in coordination with regional entities around the world, including in pan-African and pan-Pacific contexts. The event will also identify key avenues for expanded regional cooperation on climate-health moving forward. | https://www.state.gov/u-s-center-at-cop28-schedule/#Dec3 |
38 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-10:00 | Climate Change and Health: Main Findings from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report | Watch | Science for Climate Action Pavilion | IPCC | This event will explore the interconnections between human health, ecosystem health, and climate change, including relevant topics, such as: observed and potential impacts of climate change on human health, as well as the co-benefits of CC mitigation for human health, based on key findings of IPCC Working Group II and III, respectively; the interlinkages between climate change as direct driver of biodiversity loss, eco-systems health and human health by combining the perspectives of recent reports by IPCC and IPBES, among others. This event may also explore lessons learned from the assessment of climate action and responses to Covid19 pandemic in recent years: the role of science, implications for local development, equity considerations, and the role of international cooperation. | https://wmo.int/site/science-climate-action-pavilion |
39 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-10:30 | A Climate-Smarter Health System | Philippine Pavilion | As health is fundamental to the transformation goals of Ambisyon Natin 2040, the country’s overarching socioeconomic and development agenda, and in line with major health sector reforms and plans, the Philippine health sector had long embarked on policies, strategies and measures to ensure climate-resilient health systems as evidenced in its action plans and adaptation plan that are an integral part of the Philippine society’s response to climate change and health threats. With proactive, timely and effective adaptation, many health risks caused by climate change can be reduced, and some potentially avoided. Transitioning towards equitable, low-carbon societies has multiple benefits for health and well-being. Targeted investments in health and other systems, including multi-sectoral, integrated approaches to protect against key health risks can effectively increase resilience. | |||
40 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-13:00 | 2023 Reaching the Last Mile Forum Plenary | C3, Conference Center, | Reaching the Last Mile | The 2023 Reaching the Last Mile Forum will galvanize new momentum, innovation, and investment towards solving the climate-health challenges faced by last-mile communities. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the forum will convene global and community leaders to support the building of resilient health systems that leave no one behind. The event will be a platform to assess the effects of climate change on human health, with an emphasis on last-mile efforts to end diseases such as polio, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. Recognizing that inclusive healthcare systems are vital to mitigating the impact of the climate crisis, the discussion will shed light on the innovations and funding models driving sustainable and equitable healthcare, where it is needed most. | https://www.reachingthelastmile.com/rlm-forum/ | |
41 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-10:00 | Psychological Resilience as a Pillar for Climate Resilience | Watch | Resilience Hub | Care of People and Planet (COP2) Sustyvibes | Interactions between health and climate adaptation have huge potential to address the future of global health. Health and wellbeing are recognized in the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and by increasing areas of climate adaptation as a key "system" that needs international investment and action as part of meaningful and substantive climate resilience and climate justice impacts. Psychological resilience, and mental and emotional wellbeing, are critical for such potential impacts. But that will require a paradigm shift—markedly enlarging how to understand what psychological resilience means, who owns it, and how to do it, in ways that moves far beyond just illness categories and care, to empower and enable social capital, collective efficacy, and, especially locally led climate adaptation. This session will share examples of what that can look like by describing the Roadmap for Care and Change launched at COP28. | https://giggabox.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/resilience-hub-2023/eventinfo/Agenda/AgendaItemDetail?id=9909a5df-c4ea-4162-ad4d-a9cc15f07589 |
42 | 3 December: Health Day | 9.00-10.00 | Limits to Human Survivabilty with extreme heat and humidity | Watch | Monash Pavilion | Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, University of Sydney | The upper limits of human survivability due to heat stress, traditionally defined as a critical wet-bulb temperature of 35˚C, have been forecasted in some regions of the world with climate change. New research shows that when accounting for physiological restrictions to thermoregulation, death due to heatstroke and/or cardiovascular collapse will almost certainly occur at lower wet-bulb temperatures. Geographical regions potentially affected by lethal heat and humidity with climate change will therefore be more widespread. This event aims to highlight these findings as a driver for increased ambition for both mitigation and adaptation. Speakers: Ollie Jay - Professor Heat & Health, Director of the Heat and Health Research Incubator Lab & Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, Sydney Andrew Forrest - Chairman and Founder Fortescue Metals Group, Fortescue Future Industries, Minderoo Foundation and Tattarang Group Angie Bone - Associate Professor (Practice), Planetary Health, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University (Moderator) | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
43 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-10:00 | Transforming Australian, First Nations and Pacific Islands health responses to climate change through action at the nexus of research, policy, and partnerships | Australia Pavilion | NHMRC HEAL National Research Network + Lancet Countdown Oceania | This Panel Discussion and Talanoa Dialogue event features Australia’s pre-eminent climate-health research networks (NHMRC HEAL Network and Lancet Countdown Oceania), together with our Pacific (Fiji, Marshall Islands) and First Nations (Curumba Institute) partners. This event will feature discussions at the nexus of climate change and health sector research, policy and partnerships in Australia and our wider region. | ||
44 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:00-10:00 | Panel: Climate-related challenges affecting health in fragile and conflict-affected settings: emerging responses to build resilience | UNOPS Pavilion | UNOPS, IFRC, International Medical Corps | This high-level panel will consider the multiple impacts of climate change on health and health systems in Fragile and Conflict affected states, and outline some approaches that states, international financial institutions, Civil society and international NGOs are taking to address these challenges | ||
45 | 3 December: Health Day | 09:00-11:00 | COP28 Presidency Health Day Opening Session: Unpacking Political and Financial Commitments | https://www.youtube.com/@COP28UAEOfficial/featured | Al Waha Theatre | COP28 Presidency and Core Partners | This event will serve as the official launch of programming for the first-ever Health Day to take place at a UNFCCC Conference of Parties. Health Day will feature a rich thematic program on the climate and health nexus. This event will serve as a scene-setter for the day; providing an overview of the imperative for climate and health action and the opportunities that exist across the whole of society to protect and promote health through climate action. Global leaders will lay out a vision for action and announce political and financial commitments to accelerate action on climate change and health in line with the needs of the most impacted countries and communities. | |
46 | 3 December: Health Day | 9:30-10:30 | Fostering Youth Capacities to Utilize Digital Health for Climate Change Mitigation and Response | Climate Live Pavilion | YOUNGO | To describe youth applications of digital health to reduce health systems green houses emission.Advantages of using digital health to manage the changing patterns of infectious diseases and environmental events. To discuss the role of youth in utilizing digital health to deliver care to climate affected areas. | ||
47 | 3 December: Health Day | 10.00-10.30 | Measuring Health Loss and Damage | Monash Pavilion | Heidelberg Institute of Global Health | Climate change significantly impacts health through heat exposure, affecting a broad spectrum of both non-communicable and communicable diseases sensitive to climate and heat. We will introduce CHEERS as a framework for evaluating the intersection of climate change and health, focusing on assessing individual health impacts and interpreting these in the context of loss and damage. | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events | |
48 | 3 December: Health Day | 10:30-11:15 | AMR and environment: Linking AMR and the triple planetary crisis AND Launch of the GLG pocket guide on integrated surveillance | UNEP Pavilion | Global Leaders Group on AMR | |||
49 | 3 December: Health Day | 10.30-11.30 | Plugging the Health Workforce Brain Drain for Climate Adaptation | Monash Pavilion | Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Doctors for the Environment Australia, Monash University | This workshop adopts the World Cafe style to discuss the issues linked to healthcare workforce migration amidst the backdrop of climate change. The primary objective is to cultivate awareness, encourage discussion, explore mitigation strategies, facilitate collaboration, and empower participants to enact change. The overarching goal is to instigate positive transformation within healthcare systems, reinforcing their resilience in confronting the challenges posed by climate change. Hosts: Kimberly Humphrey - Doctors for the Environment Australia, 2022-2023 Fellow in Climate Change and Human Health at Harvard University Rupa Patel - Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Washington University St Louis, PrEP Implementation advisor, WHO Ramon Lorenzo Guinto, MD, DrPH, Assoicate Professor (practice) Global Public Health, St Luke's medical center college of medicine, Philippines Zerina Tomkins - Associate Professor Nursing and Midwifery Monash University (Moderator) | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events | |
50 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:00-11:45 | Scaling Climate and Health Action: Learning from Country Experiences | World Bank Pavilion | World Bank | This event, structured as a panel discussion, will convene Public and Private sector leaders and partners and provide a platform to deliberate on challenges and opportunities to foster more sustainable and resilient health systems. It will highlight (a) the critical need for country-tailored solutions to effectively address climate-health challenges; (b) examples of people-centered approaches that could be and have been successfully deployed/adopted to address the climate-health crisis; (c) the role of the private sector in designing, deploying, and scaling innovative country-tailored solutions; and (d) the perspectives of CSOs. | ||
51 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:00-12:00 | Youth Climate Thematic Forum - UNFCCC mandated | High Level Roundtable | YOUNGO | Raise awareness of linkages between climate change and health, peace and security,Explore policy needs to mitigate and adapt to climate-driven challenges in these sectors that disproportionately affect youth.Identify intergenerational solutions for action,create opportunities for youth perspectives and action on these policy issues to be recognized and enable intergenerational networking for further partnership and policy discussion. | ||
52 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:00-12:45 | Regional Roundtable Consultation with African Ministers - AFRO/EMRO | Health Pavilion | WHO Regional Offices for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, the Africa CDC, with the support of the Wellcome Trust, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Global Fund | To forge a common narrative on health and climate in Africa, Amref Health Africa, the WHO Regional Offices for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, the Africa CDC, with the support of the Wellcome Trust, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Global Fund are hosting a round-table consultation with African Ministers to build consensus among Ministers of health on the key submissions and the common position to be presented during various COP sessions. | ||
53 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:30-12:30 | How climate change affects our health | GCA Room 2 | COP28 Presidency, WHO and Wellcome Trust | A growing body of research and data shows how climate change is impacting human health and wellbeing. This event will recap the scientific evidence, show the different ways in which climate change is already damaging human health today, and its likely long-term impacts. It will also introduce evidence on the health benefits of climate action. Frontline communities and representatives from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in particular will share the ways in which their health and lives are being impacted. The event will look to bring the science to life with real-world examples and case studies. | https://www.cop28.com/en/schedule/how-does-climate-change-affect-our-health | |
54 | 3 December: Health Day | 11.30-12.30 | Climate and health response in the UAE | DP World - Multipurpose Meeting Room | MOHAP | In pursuing sustainable, climate-resistant, and equitable healthcare systems, the proposed event, will shed the light on the UAE national and local efforts to address the climate change and its effect on health, and would show case how the healthcare sector is working to mitigate climate change risks. It will provide a dynamic platform for exchanging insights, experiences, and innovative ideas to build a sustainable resilient health system and reduce carbon emissions. | ||
55 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:30-13:00 | Keep cool in the heat! European action for good health and well-being on a warming planet | European Pavilion | European Commission and WHO Regional Office for Europe | Climate change is the major health threat of the 21st century. Its most direct and noticeable impact is the rise in intensity and frequency of extreme heat events across the European Region and the world. As temperatures soar and life-threatening heat stress intensifies, the urgency to act increases. To ensure that all our communities can keep cool and remain habitable, we need rapid advances towards climate-neutrality, technological and organizational upgrades and better prevention, preparedness and response for extreme temperatures. This requires active coordination between all relevant policy fields and actors. This event is about the efforts undertaken in the European Region to ensure good health and well-being for everyone on a warming planet. This event will provide first-hand information from high-level European policy-makers to learn more about relevant practices and experiences, and to gain insights from experts in the field. | ||
56 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:30-12:30 | Health response to climate change in context of G20 | Presidency Roundtable | COP28 Presidency and Core Partners | The G20 recognizes the urgent need to mainstream the climate-health agenda and take decisive action across multiple sectors to protect human health, natural ecosystems, and animal welfare. This high-level event will highlight the collaborative initiatives led by India's G20 presidency, with ADB's backing, to position the intersection of climate and health at the forefront of the G20 agenda. It will assess progress in identifying priorities, interventions, funding needs, and potential investments for impactful outcomes in advanced and emerging economies. The goal of the event is to achieve a collective, clearer understanding of the challenges and co-create innovative solutions that bridge climate action with health outcomes.
| https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/roundtable-on-g20 | |
57 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:30 - 12:45 | Public-Private Partnerships for Healthcare Climate Action | DP World - The Atrium | COP28 Presidency and Seed Global Health | Non-state actors and the private sector play a crucial role in taking action at the climate-health nexus, building a climate-resilient low-carbon health sector, and advancing innovative adaptation solutions to ensure health and wellbeing of climate-vulnerable communities. This session will offer an opportunity for global business leaders to showcase the joint action and progress being made on climate and health, and underscore how public-private collaboration can deliver sustainable, equitable healthcare. It will celebrate bold commitments by public and private sector leaders to invest in challenges and opportunities at the climate-health nexus. It also provide high-level guidance on how to get started on ambitious climate action for interested parties with the aim of inspiring leaders in the COP28 audience to build and launch similarly ambitious public or private commitments in the near future. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/Public-Private-Partnerships-for-Healthcare-Climate-Action | |
58 | 3 December: Health Day | 11:35-12:15 | Accelerated Action on Air Quality in Urban Areas: A Solution for Climate Mitigation and Improved Health Outcomes | UAE Pavillion | Clean Air Fund; UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment | This high-level, multi-stakehol der panel discussion will showcase how accelerated action on air quality in urban areas and on a city-level can deliver fast climate mitigation and improved health outcomes. This event aims to make air quality an explicit priority for city-level climate action and is integrated into commitments. It will also spotlight best practices in AQ monitoring and reduction on a global scale. | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerated-action-on-air-quality-in-urban-areas-tickets-760283096207?aff=oddtdtcreator | |
59 | 3 December: Health Day | 12.00-13.00 | Nurturing the Future: Maternal and Child Health in a Changing Climate | Watch | Monash Pavilion | Monash University, University of Washington, Harvard Medical School, Nepal Health Research Council | “Digital Health Solutions for Climate Change Resilience: Adapting and Mitigating the Impact" is focused on the intersection of digital health and climate change, aims to heighten awareness, ignite discussions, inspire innovation, and facilitate collaboration among participants and experts. It offers a platform for structured dialogue and engagement, addressing vital questions surrounding environmentally sustainable digital health solutions for climate resilience. - Stefan Wheat - MD, University of Washington, School of Medicine - Victor Anthony - Lopez-Carmen, Harvard Medical School - Suman Pant - Nepal Health Research Council - Gabriela Fernando - Monash Malaysia - Zerina Tomkins - Associate Professor Nursing and Midwifery Monash University (Moderator) | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
60 | 3 December: Health Day | 12:00-13:30 | How ambitious emission reductions can save lives | GCA Room 2 | COP28 Presidency, WHO and Wellcome Trust | This event will showcase progress and new commitments to capture the vast health benefits of climate mitigation policies and investments, including in the fields of energy, transport, food and agriculture and others. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/How-Ambitious-Emission-Reductions-Can-Prevent-Illness-Improve-Human-Health-and-Save-Lives | |
61 | 3 December: Health Day | 12:30-14:00 | Health Climate Resilience: An Integrated Approach for Balancing Sustainable Healthcare and Economic Harmony | Knowledge Stage | Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Abu Dhabi Public Health Center | Explore Abu Dhabi's world of sustainable healthcare, where innovation promotes wellbeing, environmental harmony, and economic balance. Discover sustainable design ideas, energy-efficient infrastructure, and renewable energy sources as you investigate the notion of green hospitals. Discover how effective case studies enhance patient care and resource efficiency. Understand the economic sustainability of healthcare, including the appraisal of health technology and resource allocation. Witness the continuing conversation between stakeholders, policy makers, and stakeholders as they work toward economic sustainability. Join us on this path to sustainable healthcare, where innovation and economic balance intersect. | ||
62 | 3 December: Health Day | 12:45-13:45 | How Ambitious Emission Reductions Can Save Lives | Watch | GCA Room 2 | COP28 Presidency, WHO, Wellcome Trust | Taking rapid and ambitious action to address the climate crisis and reach the goals of the Paris Agreement is critical to protecting lives and livelihoods. This event will highlight the health opportunities of ambitious climate mitigation policies, both in terms of reduced climate impacts and possible co-benefits of specific mitigation actions across key fields including energy, transport and agriculture. It will showcase the benefits of climate mitigation policies on safeguarding human health, as well as progress so far and new commitments. It will also spotlight a range of leaders that are at the forefront of enacting ambitious mitigation policies and unlocking the benefits of those policies on human health. Finally, it will also launch two reports: the Pathfinder report and the Lancet Countdown report. | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2023/lshtm-cop28 |
63 | 3 December: Health Day | 13.00-14.00 | Mental health and climate change | YCC Pavillion | YCC and Wellcome Trust | This event will make the case for mental health as a priority action for the health response to climate change. On top of suffering physical impacts from the climate crisis, people’s mental health is also being severely impacted, preventing them from thriving life and affecting their overall resilience. Moreover, with the costs of climate change on mental health, estimated at 47 billion US$ annually in 2030, the opportunity for action should no longer be missed. This event will showcase the growing evidence base on how the changing climate is impacting mental health and psychological resilience. It will focus on climate-induced mental health impacts among the most vulnerable communities including youth, those with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and people living with severe mental health challenges. To conclude, it will discuss 'opportunity for action’ and showcase evidence-based solutions and national strategies. | ||
64 | 3 December: Health Day | 13.00-14.30 | Mental health and climate change: how climate change is affecting our mental health and what we can do? | Youth Hub | YOUNGO | This event will make the case for mental health as a priority action for the health response to climate change. On top of suffering physical impacts from the climate crisis, people’s mental health is also being severely impacted, preventing them from living a thriving life and affecting their overall resilience. Moreover, with the costs of climate change on mental health, estimated at 47 billion US$ annually in 2030, the opportunity for action should no longer be missed. This event will focus on climate-induced mental health impacts among the most vulnerable communities including youth, those with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and people living with severe mental health challenges. | ||
65 | 3 December: Health Day | 13:30-15:00 | Maximizing Finance for Climate and Health – Joint Development Banks’ Approach | MDB Pavilion | World Bank | This event will highlight the work of the Development Bank Working Group for Climate-Health Finance (‘the Group’), which was established to enable development banks (DBs) to align on a common agenda of how to urgently raise, prioritize, and drive climate and health commitments at the pace and scale needed to sustainably finance a people-centered approach for climate and health action. The Group includes MDB representatives, representative members of the ‘Finance in Common’ network that incorporates key Public Development Banks, and the IFC. | ||
66 | 3 December: Health Day | 13:30-14:45 | Navigating politics, lessons from the front line: climate and health leaders in conversation. Panel discussion with Julia Gillard | Watch | Health Pavilion | Wellcome Trust | A conversation with Julia Gillard, Wellcome Trust (and former Australian Prime Minister) and fellow leaders in climate (and health) to showcase how leadership in the climate and health field has helped take new strides in promoting new solutions and approaches to tackle the climate crisis and its impacts on health. It will be an opportunity to illustrate the impacts that climate and health action can have on the lives of those at the front lines of climate change and to look towards the future ambition of leaders in this space. This event is being hosted by Wellcome global foundation dedicating over £100mn to climate and health research over the coming year. Speakers: Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of Wellcome Panel of Global Political leaders in the climate and health space, to be announced. | |
67 | 3 December: Health Day | 13:30-14:40 | Panel: Making Health Systems More Climate Resilient at Local and Global Scales | Canada Pavilion | Health Canada, WHO | |||
68 | 3 December: Health Day | 13:30-14:00 | Digital Health Solutions for Climate Change Resilience: Adapting and Mitigating the Impact | Monash Pavilion | Monash University | |||
69 | 3 December: Health Day | 13:40-14:30 | Co-designing healthier, more sustainable urban futures for young people. | Watch | Children and Youth Pavillion | LSHTM, CCC Action Lab, YOUNGO | This session, and larger event series, is linked to an ongoing, and growing, initiative that looks at the intersection of climate change, urbanisation and the lives and health of children and young people. This series enables continued conversation through both the COY and COP conferences and beyond through the work of the CCC Action Lab. The cross-pavilion format provides additional value by encouraging cross-migration of COP attendees between the C&Y and Health Pavilions. This cross-migration will expose each key stakeholder group to the conversation around urban youth health from the different lenses of C&Y and Health. We aim to produce an actionable co-designed agenda for improving cities for young people, co-created by young people, members of the health community, policy makers, and urban planners, fulfilling our secondary aim: to facilitate dialogue between key stakeholder groups and increase awareness of the impacts of climate change on urban youth health. | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/cop28-side-events-children-cities-and-climate-action-lab-workshops |
70 | 3 December: Health Day | 14.00-15.00 | Climate change, migration and health: A call for action to leave no one behind | Impact Hub - The Majlis - Level 5 | Save the Children, WHO, IFRC | This session focuses on strengthening the understanding of the global policy landscape on climate change, migration, and health, recognizing the interconnectedness and highlighting existing policy gaps. It will highlight how climate change impacts the needs of migrant and displaced children and young people and elevate their voices. The discussion will identify opportunities to improve data collection and research to inform decision-making. It will also underscore the importance of integrating the health of refugees and migrants into climate change policies. Finally, it will highlight the need to prioritise and invest in migrant-sensitive, climate-resilient, child-focused, and child-inclusive health systems and health information systems, in line with global commitments such as the SDGs. | ||
71 | 3 December: Health Day | 14:00-15:00 | Adaptation and Resilience to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change | GCA Room 2 | COP28 Presidency and WHO | This event will explore opportunities to build health resilience, and illustrate how climate adaptation actions across sectors are able to help protect people’s health and wellbeing. It will take a cross-sectoral perspective, given the impacts of food systems, water and sanitation and other sectors on health, and the fact that a healthy population can, by itself, be a factor for resilience. This will also incorporate findings that climate-sensitive health risks are disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, including women, children, ethnic minorities, lower-income communities, migrants or displaced persons, older populations, and those with underlying health conditions. | ||
72 | 3 December: Health Day | 14:00-15:30 | Managing Heatwaves | Germany Pavilion | DWD | |||
73 | 3 December: Health Day | 14:30-16:00 | Reaching the Last Mile Flagship Segment | Al Waha Theatre, | Reaching the Last Mile Forum | The event will serve as a platform for donors and countries to highlight their continuing commitment to elimination efforts across all NTDs, underscoring the UAE’s leadership on this issue, and reflecting COP28’s call to unite, act, and forge a healthier and safer future together. Additionally, the event will announce the winners of the prestigious Recognizing Excellence Around Champions of Health (REACH) Awards, honoring and celebrating health workers on the frontlines of pressing climate-health challenges. | https://www.reachingthelastmile.com/rlm-forum/ | |
74 | 3 December: Health Day | 14:30-16:00 | Unveiling the environmental burden of disease: Pioneering climate action for health and resilience | Knowledge Stage | Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Abu Dhabi Public Health Center | Discover the deep relationship between our environment and human well-being in the environmental burden of illness narrative. Our surrounds have a huge influence on our physical and mental health, from air and water quality to the built environment. This story emphasizes the role of environmental stewardship, legislation, and scientific research in addressing these concerns. Based on WHO's Global Burden of illness methodology, the UAE Environmental Burden of Disease Model provides a framework for measuring the national burden of illness caused by several environmental factors including climate change and pollution. This information is then used to design climate-resilient health systems for a better, more sustainable future. Join us on this healthcare frontier. | ||
75 | 3 December: Health Day | 14:45-15:45 | Prescribing Change: Shaping a Climate-Ready Healthcare Future | Greening Education Hub | YOUNGO | Integration of Climate change and health in professional curriculum.To prepare health professionals to address its health impacts and become leaders in the fight against climate crisis. | ||
76 | 3 December: Health Day | 15.00-16.00 | Empowering communities for wellbeing and disaster resilience | Watch | Monash Pavilion | Monash University | Communities are experts in their own lived experience and in ways to improve and sustain their health and wellbeing in and out of times of crisis. This event will explore the value and challenges of community led approaches to wellbeing and disaster resilience, and how governments, academics and industry can help and not hinder these processes. Speakers/Hosts: - Tristan Kennedy - Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), Monash University (Moderator) - Briony Rogers - Chief Executive Officer of Fire to Flourish program, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University - Pre-recorded film - Eka Permanasari - Associate Professor Urban design, Architecture, and Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Indonesia - Cara Cook - Director of Programs, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment - Janine Mohamed - Chief Executive Officer, Lowitja Institute | https://www.monash.edu/cop28-events |
77 | 3 December: Health Day | 15:00-16:30 | Road to ICPD30: Enhancing rights-based NDCs and Integration of Gender-transformative Approaches | SE Room 7 | UNHCR, UNFPA, IDRC, WHO, COP28 | UNFPA, WHO and OHCHR are ready to support countries in drafting new generation climate plans that incorporate the intersections of SRHR, gender, population matters and climate. The side event will allow for the unpacking of specific activities and commitments on SRHR, gender, women’s health, youth and human rights in current NDCs and provide a platform to share country experiences, best practices and opportunity to scale action with the aim to enhance the policy and programme capabilities of key actors and policy makers ahead of the next cycle of NDC updates. Next year, 2024 will see many countries commence that process. It will look into the state of enabling conditions to advance gender equality, and integrate SRHR, inclusive governance structures, capacity development, climate finance and gender-responsive budgeting and planning processes, in the various climate national policies, while extracting positive commitments from various stakeholders on the next cycle of NDC submissions and the ICPD30 Global Review in 2024. Opening remarks: - Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General - H.E John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate - H.E Mia Amor Mottley, S.C., Prime Minister of Barbados | ||
78 | 3 December: Health Day | 15:15-16:15 | Climate and Health Finance: Strengthening the Role of Development Banks and Finance Institutions | GCA Room 1 | COP28 Presidency and World Bank | This high-level event will highlight the work of the Development Bank Working Group for Climate-Health Finance, a global network of development finance institutions dedicated to enhancing the collective impact in addressing the climate crisis. It will discuss the commitment to collectively scale up support to countries especially for the most climate-vulnerable countries. It will also present concrete harmonized co-financing opportunities development banks for climate and health finance investments. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/finance-roundtable | |
79 | 3 December: Health Day | 15:15-16:30 | European Regional Dialogue: Accelerating Action on Climate and Health | Watch | Health Pavilion | WHO Regional Office for Europe | Countries in the WHO European Region are moving faster to take action on climate change to protect our health and that of future generations. Through this European Regional Dialogue, which brings together health leaders from the Region and beyond, we aim to unpack the different dimensions of the climate change and health agenda, focusing on regional policy and political commitments, recognising the power of new partnership opportunities, and learning from national ambitions for climate action. Our aim is to empower the health community by making its voice heard to ensure that health is well-anchored in the climate change agenda and to pave the way for strong and straightforward policies at national and local level. We must act now, we must act together. The outcomes of the European Regional Dialogue will provide important input to the COP28 Climate–Health Ministerial, which will take place immediately after the Dialogue. | |
80 | 3 December: Health Day | 15:15–16:30 | European Regional Dialogue: Accelerating Action on Climate and Health | Watch | Health Pavilion | WHO Regional Office for Europe | At this historic moment, when global actors are increasingly recognizing the links between climate change and health, WHO is bringing health leaders to the forefront of the debate at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) to give them the voice they need and deserve. To this end, the first-ever Health Day and Climate-Health Ministerial at a UN Climate Change Conference will be held on 3 December. Countries in the WHO European Region are moving faster to take action on climate change to protect our health and that of future generations. Through this European Regional Dialogue, which brings together health leaders from the Region and beyond, we aim to unpack the different dimensions of the climate change and health agenda, focusing on regional policy and political commitments, recognizing the power of new partnership opportunities, and learning from national ambitions for climate action. Our aim is to empower the health community by making its voice heard to ensure that health is well-anchored in the climate change agenda and to pave the way for strong and straightforward policies at national and local level. We must act now, we must act together. The outcomes of the European Regional Dialogue will provide important input to the COP28 Climate–Health Ministerial, which will take place immediately after the Dialogue. | |
81 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:00-17:00 | Coffee and conversations: How can businesses tackle air pollution? | International Chambers of Commerce (ICC) Partner Stage | Clean Air Fund; Inter IKEA Group; the Stockholm Environment Institute in partnership with the ICC | This session will hear from industry leaders about the role of the private sector in tackling air pollution. Keynote speech by Par Stenmark, Chief Sustainability Officer (Inter IKEA Group), one of the trailblazers who are beginning to measure and reduce their air pollutant emissions across their value chain. This coffee break event seeks to connect COP’s first-ever Health Day to corporate action. | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coffee-and-conversations-how-can-businesses-tackle-air-pollution-tickets-761030571927?aff=oddtdtcreator | |
82 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:30-18.00 | Climate-Health Solutions Showcase | Impact Hub - The Atrium | COP28 Presidency | This event will showcase a range of high-impact, evidence-backed interventions across the climate-health nexus. These interventions will demonstrate the strong investment case for financing climate-health programs to improve, protect and promote population health in the face of climate change; build climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health systems; and generate health co-benefits from climate action across all sectors of the economy. This Green Zone event will align to the simultaneous Blue Zone events such as the Finance Roundtable on climate and health and the Climate-Health Ministerial. The outcome of this event is to amplify this year’s agenda of climate-health financing for a healthier climate future. | ||
83 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:30-18:00 | Health / Relief / Recovery / Peace | UICCA Pavilion | Webit Foundation, UICCA | |||
84 | 3 December: Health Day | 16.30-18.30 | Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) | . | Monash Pavilion | Monash University | This event is a series of presentations followed by networking with light refreshments from 17.30. RISE is a transdisciplinary research program with a vision to improve the health and wellbeing of residents of informal settlements. RISE is trialling a water-sensitive approach to watsan management in informal settlements in Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji. RISE is co-designing site-specific solutions that combine engineering with nature-based technologies to deliver watsan services, improve climate resilience and transform the health and wellbeing of communities. With the first-ever rigorous evidence of effeciveness in hand, the long-term ambition is to expand the approach across the Asia-Pacific and the world to give millions the opportunity to live healthier, safer lives. Speakers/Hosts: - Tony Wong - Professor of Sustainable Development, Monash University, and Director of Upscaling, Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) - Mere Nualumatua – Senior Engagement Specialist (Urban Planning), Monash University, RISE Fiji - Ruzka Taruc – Chief Investigator and Assessment Project Manager, Universitas Hasanuddin, RISE Indonesia | |
85 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:00-19.00 | Climate-Health Ministerial | https://www.youtube.com/@COP28UAEOfficial/featured | Plenary 2 | COP28 Presidency | The COP28 Presidency, the World Health Organization and the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, and a group of champion countries are hosting the first-ever climate-health ministerial at COP. Ministers of health, environment, finance and other related sectors will set out a roadmap and opportunities for action to address the rapidly growing burden of climate change on healthcare systems, as well as capture the vast socio-economic benefits from better health and well-being through climate action. A political declaration will be adopted to reflect country priorities on climate change and health and support the mainstreaming of health in the climate agenda. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/climate-health-ministerial |
86 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:30-18:00 | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: A Roundtable Discussion on Climate Change, Health and Infectious Diseases, and Sustainable Solutions | Level 1, Parcel B | Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), Global Institute of Disease Elimination (GLIDE) | This roundtable discussion will bring together experts from public health, renewable energy, and sustainable development to call for the urgent need to achieving net zero emissions, shed light on the impacts of climate change on health, and how it contributes to the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. It also aims to highlight action-oriented solutions to combat climate change and infectious diseases, recognizing that disease elimination and eradication are the ultimate in both equity and sustainability. This is an invitation only event. | ||
87 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:45-18:15 | Gender and Environment Data Alliance: Roots of Change | Watch | SE Room 7 | Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women Environmental Programme (WEP) | This event will explore the latest trends at the intersection of gender, climate and environment data - highlighting the most urgent gaps in research, connections to the IPCC report and how these gaps relate to the Global Stocktake. | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2023/lshtm-cop28 |
88 | 3 December: Health Day | 16:55-17:02 | Young people navigation the dual crisis of climate change and conflict with a health lens. | C&Y Pavillion | YOUNGO | To describe the impact of the double burden of climate change and conflict on youth mental health and to create a space for youth to show their initiatives and challenges about the impact of climate change on their health in conflict areas. | ||
89 | 3 December: Health Day | 17:00-17:30 | Short TED talk on Connecting Climate Minds project | Children and Youth Pavillion | ||||
90 | 3 December: Health Day | 17:00-17:45 | Connecting climate change and health research: interaction between air pollution and heat stress, and the co-benefits of emission reductions | Innovation Norway Pavilion | CICERO Center for International Climate Research | This event will raise awareness of the evidence on the health effects of co-exposure to heat and air pollution, an issue with potentially wide-ranging consequences for health and livelihoods and that so far has not been addressed by policies. Hence, air pollution abatement will reduce the heat impacts on health and can in fact be seen as an adaptation option along with other policies and interventions that reduce the impacts of heat on populations. | https://cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangementer/cop28-connecting-climate-change-and-health-research-interaction-between-air-pollution-and-heat-stress-and-the-co-benefits-of-emission-reductions-copy | |
91 | 3 December: Health Day | 18:30-20:00 - Followed by a reception | Climate Resilient Health Systems: delivering on the promise to leave no child behind | Watch | Germany Pavilion | Save the Children, in partnership with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, GAVI and the Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP) | The panel will explore how strong and coordinated collaboration among global health partners can contribute to ensuring equitable access to health systems and strengthen national and regional capacities for greater resilience and adaptive capacity of health systems. It will discuss the role of governments, civil society, donor countries and multilaterals in building resilient climate neutral health systems with primary healthcare as the key lever, that are capable of delivering universal health coverage at scale and essential health and nutrition services for children and their families. | https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmCJ7S1A7d2u4cJNAH0FvABklEv3fG37EiWqaSMvWPa38reA/viewform__;!!CQHwJoRw!f3LZgUpwK5eBM0vdUr2pg3g7X8fSTPZxOXApsjNsdbUVggYdEX20rNzeH1aM7PiTicpYtq5UGAiqsQ3-OzOkYo3Ak5KIhNrhihw$ |
92 | 3 December: Health Day | 18.30-19.20 | Addressing impacts of climate change on health outcomes of women and children | UAE House of Sustainability | COP 28 and core partners | This session will seek to address two areas. Firstly, the lived experience of the impacts of climate change - which will seek to deepen the understanding of climate impact on women’s/children health; address the evidence base and; showcase real-world examples and case studies to illustrate these direct impacts of climate on women’s and children's health. Secondly it will explore, investing in climate/health which will seek to identify critical investments for adaptation; present strategies to ensure climate/health finance leads to resilient outcomes and; foster collaborative efforts across funders and implementers to secure resilient and sustainable outcomes. | ||
93 | 3 December: Health Day | 20:30-23:00 | Health Day Nightcap | Canary Club, Banyan Tree Residences, Hillside, Dubai | Climate x Health initiative | All climate and health champions are invited to close COP28 Health Day with a nightcap. You can expect brief toasts and the opportunity to build stronger connections across a growing community of individuals and organizations who are working to advance joint action for climate and health. The evening will be a moment for reflection, celebration and strategizing the best ways to maintain our collective momentum in 2024. | RSVP: https://bitly.ws/32BGL | |
94 | 3 December: Health Day | Protecting and Promoting Health in Climate Crisis Settings | | Health - RR&P Nexus Event | This event will showcase new policies, technology, and finance to scale up health services and resilience in settings where climate is driving displacement, conflict, and instability. It will provide a platform to the voices, needs and leadership of frontline communities, and will highlight the need for an effective and ambitious loss and damage response in order to ensure health, peace and security. Outcomes also link to the “package of solutions” being announced as part of the Relief, Recovery, and Peace Day on 3 December to narrow the climate resource gap for highly vulnerable, fragile, and conflict-affected communities. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/protecting-and-promoting-health | ||
95 | 3 December: Health Day | Workshop: Advocacy and Action at the Intersection of Climate and Health | | Emerging research shows the potential for health messaging to drive and motivate climate action. This session will showcase initiatives and best practices for impactful climate and health advocacy. It will provide an opportunity for the climate and health community to share best practices and coordinate efforts so that messaging helps to generate widespread public and political buy-in for action. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/health-adaptation-and-resilience | |||
96 | 3 December: Health Day | The Human Face of Climate Change: Showcasing Scientific Evidence on Impacts of Climate Change on Health | | A growing body of research and data shows how climate change is impacting human health and wellbeing. This event will recap the scientific evidence, show the different ways in which climate change is already damaging human health today, and its likely long-term impacts. It will also introduce evidence on the health benefits of climate action. Frontline communities and representatives from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in particular will share the ways in which their health and lives are being impacted. The event will look to ‘bring the science to life’ with real-world examples and case studies. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/the-human-face | |||
97 | 3 December: Health Day | The Health Arguments for Climate Action: Promoting the health Benefits of Mitigation | | COP28 Presidency | This event will showcase progress and new commitments to capture the vast health benefits of climate mitigation policies and investments, including in the fields of energy, transport, food and agriculture and others. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/the-health-arguments | ||
98 | 3 December: Health Day | From Relief to Climate Resilient Development Pathways | | Climate change is a top driver of skyrocketing humanitarian needs and human suffering with increasing hunger and water crisis. The event organized with support from humanitarian , peace and development actors will showcase concrete actions to invest in adaptation solutions, including locally led, with a focus on food and water, to both advance resilient and sustainable development . It will also introduce plans and opportunities in crisis settings to move from the provision of relief to climate-resilient development . The event will also be a bridge to the 10 December thematic day dedicated to food, agriculture, and water. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/relief-to-climate-resilient-development | |||
99 | 3 December: Health Day | Adaptation and Climate Resilience in Low Lying Island States | | Rising Nations Initiative partners | Low-lying countries are witnessing significant amounts of their territory being rendered uninhabitable, with some facing the prospect of complete inundation from rising sea level. For many Small Island Developing States, especially in the atolls, this represents a catastrophic threat to their political, social, economic and cultural fabric, as well as their territorial integrity. This event will feature policies and long-term adaptation interventions being mobilized to safeguard the future and heritage of affected populations. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/island-states | ||
100 | 3 December: Health Day | Finance for Climate and Health | WCAS Theatre | COP28 Presidency Health Flagship Moment | An anchor of Health Day, this event will see announcements of significant new health-climate finance and programs in response to country priorities and needs. It will showcase concrete commitments and progress by governments, international organizations, development banks, philanthropies, and the private sector. In addition, the event will also advance a common understanding of what “health and climate” finance constitutes and improve coordination of climate-health finance efforts. | https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/finance-for-climate-and-health | ||