When: 4 December 2023 from 17:00 – 18:15 hrs UTC+4
Where: Hybrid event at the WHO and Wellcome Trust Health Pavilion, COP28, Dubai
Organizers: World Health Organization
Through coordination and collaboration, the ATACH Working Group on
Climate Action and Nutrition strives to foster collaboration to accelerate
transformative action to address the critical nexus of climate change and
nutrition. Climate change is impacting food systems, health systems, social
protection systems and water systems - all of which are fundamental for good
nutrition. At the same time, inefficiencies and maladaptation in these four
systems are further contributing to the drivers of climate change, namely
greenhouse gas emissions and the degradation of natural resources. This session
will bring actors in agriculture systems and health systems together and forge
stronger partnerships to meet mutual objectives. It will discuss actions that need
to take place to advance collective work on the intersection of climate change,
nutrition, and health.
Moderator
Lina Mahy, Technical Officer, World Health Organization
Speakers
- Ailan Li, Assistant Director-General, Healthier Populations, World Health Organization
- Marina Romanello, Executive Director, The Lancet Countdown: Tracking progress on health and climate change
- Jessica Colston, Environmental Technical Lead, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
- Nancy Aburto, Deputy Director, Division of Nutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Andrea Connell, MH Deputy Director for International Affairs, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Laura Rissanen, State Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
- Afshan Khan, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Coordinator and UN Assistant Secretary-General
- Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Populations, Egypt & Co-Chair of ATACH I-CAN Working Group
- Bhuvaneswari Balasubramanian, Country Representative, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, India & and representing the Co-Chair of ATACH I-CAN Working Group
- Stephen Dorey, Health Nutrition and Population Consultant, World Bank
