Webinar | Galvanizing health actors as protagonists in climate action

Climate change mitigation is essential to a health systems response to climate crisis. This webinar will explore the role health systems researchers, policy-makers and health care workers can play in promoting a fast, just, and funded phase out of fossil fuels, a key and under-addressed commercial determinant of health and health inequities.

As with much of the action on the social and commercial determinants of health, health systems action on climate change has tended to focus on how to ameliorate harms and adapt to risks, rather than how to prevent and stop actual harm.

This webinar will discuss new research and identify strategies for health systems actors to be protagonists in addressing the climate crisis, and discuss opportunities for coalition building, including the perceived barriers and commitments to action. The objectives of the webinar are the following:

• To become familiar with key trends in climate crisis mitigation.
• To learn about specific efforts where health systems actors in diverse roles became involved in climate action and a just transition.
• For participants to integrate those examples into their own context and consider how they can engage in climate action, knowledge generation and learning.

About UNU-IIGH

The UNU International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, operates as the designated UN think tank specialising in global health. With a mandate to facilitate the translation of research evidence into policies and tangible actions, UNU-IIGH serves as a hub connecting UN member states, academia, agencies, and programmes. Established through a statute adopted by the United Nations University Council in December 2005, the institute plays a pivotal role in addressing inequalities in global health. UNU-IIGH contributes to the formulation, implementation, and assessment of health programmes.