Side event COP28: Low carbon and climate-resilient health care: global perspectives on solutions and practices
Side event COP28: Low carbon and climate-resilient health care: global perspectives on solutions and practices
Actualité Sciences Po
COP28 SIDE EVENT
Low carbon and climate-resilient health care: global perspectives on solutions and practices
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
13:15-14:45 (GST)
Co-hosted by University of Heidelberg and Sciences Po, Contact: charlotte.halpern@sciencespo.fr
Programme (pdf)
The WHO introduced frameworks (e.g., ATACH) for climate-resilient and low-carbon health care. Taking a holistic view, this side event will focus on how different actors in Germany, France, Switzerland, Chad and the Maldives, contribute through research & practices.
Speakers
- Dr Noemi Bender, Head of Sustainability and Climate Protection, Heidelberg University Hospital
- Dr Anneliese Depoux, Director of the Centre Virchow-Villermé, Université Paris Cité and Research affiliate at LIEPP
- Dr Charlotte Halpern, Tenured research at Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP and Director of the Institute for environmental transformations
- Dr med Alina Herrmann, Climate Change and Health Researcher, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
- Dr Maximilian Jungmann, Executive Manager, Heidelberg Center for the Environment, CEO, Momentum Novum
- Dr. med, Dr. P.H. Rainer Sauerborn, Senior professor of Climate Change and Health, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
- Dr Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Senior researcher at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) and a consultant with the Climate Action Accelerator (CAA)
- Prof Nicolas Senn, Head of the Department of Family Medicine, Unisanté, University of Lausanne, President of the Consortium for the ecological transition of the Swiss healthcare System
Programme
- Welcome, Charlotte Halpern and Max Jungmann
- A global perspective, Max Jungman, Heidelberg Center for the Environment
- Building climate change resilience in health care facilities in fragile settings; Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) and Climate Action Accelerator (CAA)
- Sustainability and Climate Protection at Heidelberg University Hospital; Rainer Sauerborn, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and Noemi Bender, Heidelberg University Hospital
- Carbon footprinting and emission reduction at German hospitals – challenges and opportunities; Alina Herrmann and Rainer Sauerborn, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
- A road map for conducting the ecological transition of the Swiss healthcare system; Prof Nicolas Senn, Unisanté, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Decarbonizing the Healthcare System: Key Challenges for Public Policies in France, Anneliese Depoux, Université Paris Cité, CVV, CPT & LIEPP, and Charlotte Halpern, Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP
- General discussion
- Conclusive remarks and end of session
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