Integrating health in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - AM session

The climate crisis is a health crisis with widespread and growing impacts of climate change on health, health systems, and health-determining sectors. Given the health impacts of climate change, the many health co-benefits of climate mitigation and adaptation across sectors, and the need for climate resilient, low carbon health systems, health is now recognised as a priority in nationally determined contributions (NDCs). NDCs are one of the key national climate plans that 195 Parties (countries or territories) have agreed to produce, implement and update as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement and to report their progress to the UNFCCC. The long-term goal of these, and other climate plans, is to limit global warming to 1.5-2°C above pre-industrial levels and shape a future with net-zero emissions.
This webinar is one in a series of technical webinars on climate change and health. In this session we will explore the opportunities and processes for integrating health in NDCs. The program includes presentations by a series of experts, the sharing of country experiences and a brief Q&A session.
Time stamps:
0:00:00 Welcome (Ms Elena Villalobos Prats, WHO)
0:02:38 Opening Remarks (Dr Alice Bell, Wellcome Trust)
0:07:57 Climate Promise (Ms Luciana Mermeet, UNDP)
0:20:54 Healthy NDCs: Introduction to integrating health in NDCs (Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, WHO)
0:34:53 Opening Remarks (Dr Sarah Thomsen, SIDA)
0:40:58 Air quality targets and health co-benefits in NDCs (Ms Heather Adair-Rohani, WHO)
0:53:36 Country experience: Health benefits of raising ambition in Pakistan’s nationally determined contribution (Dr Zafar Fatmi, Aga Khan University, Pakistan)
1:07:16 Country experience: Adaptation planning for Lao PDR’s NDC (Dr Viengkhan, MoH Lao PDR, Dr Oyuntogos Lkhasuren, WHO Lao PDR)
1:23:48 Closing Remarks (Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, WHO and Ms Luciana Mermet, UNDP)