This webinar is part of the 5th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) webinar series. It presents state-of-the art knowledge on health effects of global warming linked to heat stress and other climate hazards in a European context and discusses how alternative policy options and measures can help safeguarding the health and wellbeing of citizens through climate action.
European countries and the European Union are called upon to recognise the need to enhance their adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change. Climate change adaptation requires implementing policies to promote effective, socially acceptable, practical solutions that limit adverse health effects while also encouraging social and cultural processes to drive behavioural change. Last, but not least, climate change adaptation must go hand in hand with greenhouse gas mitigation to reap potential co-benefits and avoid costly trade-offs.
The webinar is organized under the lead of Kristin Aunan, CICERO Center for International Climate Research and project coordinator of the H2020 projects EXHAUSTION and ENBEL.
More information and registration: www.ecca21.eu
Programme
13:30 Introduction by moderator Sonja van Renssen, Managing Editor of Energy Monitor and freelance climate energy & environment journalist based in Brussels.
13:40 Health risks from climate change – impacts and urgency of climate change and health in Europe
Climate change and health – what is at stake for Europe?
Dr. Kristin Aunan, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
What are the main health effects of hot weather?
Q&A with Professor Annette Peters, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Effects of heat on mortality – current and projected health burden for Europe
Professor Antonio Gasparrini, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
14:10 Discussion and open exchange with the audience and invited experts
Ilona M. Otto, Professor, University of Graz, Austria
Anne Stauffer, Director for Strategy and Campaigns, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Brussels
Ingrid Coninx, project manager, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Short break
14:45 Adaptation solutions and best practices
Heat-health action plans in Europe as effective prevention strategies
Dr. Vladimir Kendrovski, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health
Effective prevention and adaptation strategies for reducing heat-related health risks – examples from Italy and beyond
Dr. Francesca de'Donato, Department of Epidemiology Lazio Regional Health Service - ASL Roma 1
Promoting actions to prevent health risk during heatwaves: lessons from public and stakeholder interviews in France
Q&A with Karine Laaidi, Santé Publique France
15:15 Discussion and open exchange with the audience and invited experts
Marija Jevtić, Professor, Faculty of Medicine University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Miriam Weber, PhD Senior policy advisor and healthy city coordinator Utrecht and chair of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network environment and health working group, Netherlands
15:35 The role of the European Climate and Health Observatory in promoting climate adaptation
Dr. Hans-Martin Füssel, expert - climate change vulnerability and adaptation, European Environment Agency (EEA)
Health co-benefits of climate action
Dr. Ian Hamilton, Executive Director, Lancet Countdown
15:55 Wrap-up with outlook and messages for policy
Virginia Murray, Professor, Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction; Public Health England