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The role of the Health Community in Climate Action: taking stock and moving forward [1]
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Date: 2023-05-24
Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly Strategic Roundtable
Climate change is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century. It brings deadly extreme heat and wildfires, increases non-communicable diseases and facilitates the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, driving health emergencies. It impacts our health workforce and infrastructure and reduces the ability to provide universal health coverage. Climate shocks and growing stresses such as droughts and rising sea levels undermine the environmental and social determinants of physical and mental health, from clean air and water to sustainable food systems, to livelihoods – threatening the existence of some nations. Delay will damage decades of improvements in global health and put at risk our commitments to ensure the human right to health for all.
This roundtable will discuss the role of the health community – including frontline health workers, ministries of health, intergovernmental and nongovernmental health organizations and health academics in addressing the climate crisis. It will identify opportunities (including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP28, the UN Secretary-General Climate Ambition Summit 2023, and the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly) to firmly place the health community and WHO as key actors in addressing the climate crisis, and to drive action.
The session takes place in UN Palais de Nations, Room XVIII on Wednesday 24 May 2023 between 13:00–14:15 CEST.
Moderators
Dr Maria Neira, Director, Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Panelists
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
Mr Adnan Z. Amin, President, COP28
Dr Hussain AlRand, Assistant Undersecretary for the Public Health Sector, Ministry of Health and Prevention of the UAE
Ambassador Katharina Stasch, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations
Mr Ahmed Naseem, Minister of Health of the Republic of Maldives
Dr Vanessa Kerry, Chief Executive Officer, Seed Global Health
Mr John Kerry, United States special presidential envoy for climate (video)
Dr Omnia el Omrani, Youth Envoy, COP27, WHO Youth council
Dr Ailan Li, Assistant Director-General, UHC/HEP, WHO
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