LSHTM pre-COP27 climate & health symposium: moving from evidence to action
How is climate change affecting our health and what can we do about it?
The large gap between the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement and currently projected emission trajectories emphasises the urgent need for rapid climate action. While we are currently not on track to achieve global climate goals, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to avert catastrophic climate breakdown, improve health and save lives.
This two-day symposium, hosted online by LSHTM’s Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, will focus on the latest scientific evidence on the health impacts of climate change and explore solutions we can implement to achieve a just transition to net-zero and ensure healthy, sustainable futures for people and the planet.
Themes of each session align with key focus areas of the COP27 programme.
Programme Day 1 - Wednesday 5 October 2022
- 11.00-12.30 BST: Session 1 – Health impacts of climate change
- 14.00-15.30 BST: Session 2 – Adaptation, agriculture and food systems
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Chair: Dr Patrizia Fracassi
- 14.00-14.05: Welcome and Introduction
- Speaker: Dr Patrizia Fracassi, Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
- 14.05-14.25: Building healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems in the UK, South Africa and India
- Speakers:
- Dr Rosemary Green, Associate Professor in Sustainability, Nutrition and Health
- Dr Patricia Eustachio Colombo, Research Associate, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Visiting Research Fellow LSHTM
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- 14.25-14.45: Food systems adaptations in Africa
- Speakers:
- Zakari Ali, Research degree student, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM
- Tony Carr, Research Fellow, LSHTM
- Speakers:
- 14.45-14.55: Improving rice cultivation practices for agriculture and health co-benefits
- Speaker: Professor Jo Lines, Professor of Malaria Control and Vector Biology at LSHTM
- 14.55-15.30: Panel Discussion
- 14.00-14.05: Welcome and Introduction
Programme Day 2 - Thursday 6 October 2022
- 11.00-12.30 BST: Session 3 – Health co-benefits of climate actions
- 14.00-15.30 BST: Session 4 – Youth perspectives on creating healthy, sustainable cities
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Chair: Ishita Yadav
- 14.00-14.05: Welcome and introduction
- Speaker: Ishita Yadav, YOUNGO Cities Working Group Coordinator and Cities, Climate and Health Youth Advisory Group Co-Chair
- 14.05-2.25: Children, Cities and Climate – research findings on the child health co-benefits of decarbonising cities and global youth surveys
- Speakers:
- Dr Robert Hughes, Clinical Research Fellow, LSHTM and Principal Investigator of Children, Cities and Climate
- Rachel Juel, Research Assistant, Children, Cities and Climate
- Speakers:
- 14.25-14.45: Addressing climate, health and equity together for sustainable cities of the future
- Speakers:
- Geoffrey Mboya, HundrEDOrg and We Don’t Have Time Youth Advisor and Cities, Climate and Health Youth Advisory Group Co-Chair
- Rhiannon Osborne, People’s Health Movement UK Co-Coordinator and Cities, Climate and Health Youth Advisor
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- 14.45-14.55: Youth climate and health priorities for COP27 and beyond
- Speaker: Saad Uakkas, Regional Coordinator for North Africa, African Youth Initiative on Climate Change
- 14.55-15.30: Panel discussion
- 14.00-14.05: Welcome and introduction
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Day 1 - Wednesday 5 October 2022
Day 2 - Thursday 6 October 2022
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