13.05.2024. Webinar on the publication «The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action»
On May 13, 2024, a webinar was held on the presentation of the publication «The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action» in the journal «The Lancet Public Health.» https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00055-0
The speakers of the webinar were:
- Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge – the WHO Regional Director for Europe;
- Dr. Marina Romanello – the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown and climate change and health researcher at the University College London;
- Prof. Rachel Lowe – an ICREA Research Professor, Global Health Resilience Team Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and Director of the Lancet Countdown in Europe;
- Dr. Kim van Daalen – a post-doctoral researcher at the BSC Global Health Resilience team focusing on climate change, infectious disease and gender inequities, and a Lancet Countdown Research Fellow coordinating the Lancet Countdown in Europe with Prof. Lowe;
- Arthur Wyns – a Climate and Health Advisor to WHO and COP28_UAE;
- Dr. Aleksandra Kazmierczak – an Expert – Climate change and human health at the European Environment Agency;
- Dr. Sarah Whitmee – an Assistant Professor in the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and lead author of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission’s 2023 report «Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission»;
- Anne Stauffer – Deputy Director, Strategic Lead of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL);
- Dr. Chetna Sharma – an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Health, University College London;
- Dr. Remco van de Pas – a Senior Research Associate at The Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP);
- Dr. Omnia El Omrani – a Climate Change and Health Junior Policy Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London;
- Elena Višnar Malinovská – the Head of Unit, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (CLIMA.E.1) at the European Commission.
The results of the second 2024 report were presented, with data on 42 indicators in five areas that show the negative impacts of climate change, the lagging behind in the European countries’ fight against climate change, and the favorable opportunities that come from combating climate change. Given the impact of climate change within and outside Europe and its role in creating the climate crisis, Europe must take responsibility for a just and healthy environmental transition that includes global responsibility and support for the most affected communities. The report’s findings are particularly relevant in the run-up to The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (May-June, 2024).
The State Institution «Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine» was represented by the Deputy Director of Scientific Work, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Olena Turos, and Head of the Department of the Support of State Programs and International Relations, Candidate of Medical Sciences Alla Koblianska.