Friday 10 November 2023
Panel
“The climate crisis is a health crisis”: accelerating health systems adaptation to climate change
(Session co-organized with Foundation S). Because of the emergence of new diseases, the multiplication of extreme weather events or air and water pollution, the direct and indirect effects of climate change on health are multiplying and getting more frequent. The climate crisis is putting healthcare systems to the test, demonstrating the crucial need to develop an integrated approach to climate change and health issues. Against a backdrop of crystallizing tensions between North and South, adaptation solutions need to be identified to ensure that communities most vulnerable to the effects of climate change do not suffer the direst consequences. This panel will address the need to build political leadership around these issues, and present practical field-based adaptation solutions to improve the resilience of health systems to climate change.
Mia Amor Mottley
Prime Minister, Barbados
Speaker
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou
Secretary of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, French Republic
Speaker
Raj Kumar
President and Editor in Chief, Devex
Moderator
Vanina Laurent-Ledru
Executive Director, Foundation S – The Sanofi Collective
Speaker
Omnia El Omrani
Youth Envoy for the President of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference
Speaker
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