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.
Fossil fuel phase-out is 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 session will discuss new research and identify strategies for health systems actors to be protagonists in the fight against climate change, and discuss opportunities for coalition building, including about perceived barriers and commitments to action.
The objectives of the session are the following:
- To become familiar with key trends in climate change mitigation;
- To learn about specific efforts where health systems actors in diverse roles became involved in climate action;
- For participants to integrate those examples into their own context and consider how they can engage in climate action, knowledge generation and learning.