Scaling Impact: Climate & Health Solutions That Drive Change

Campus Biotech Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Genève

Climate change is already reshaping the world’s health landscape. This session brings together leading actors to move beyond discussion and into action, showcasing concrete solutions from the field and highlighting urgent challenges that demand collective response. As the World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva, this session aims to build momentum by connecting communities of practice […]

Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat

Online

Rising global temperatures pose a significant threat to communities, with escalating extreme heat and heatwaves endangering lives worldwide. With heat driving extreme events, chronic heat exposure already at dangerous levels in parts of the world and the intensity and frequency of heatwaves increasing globally, rising temperatures are becoming a critical threat to all of us, […]

Climate Change and Health: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing World

Campus Biotech Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Genève

Climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it is a public health emergency. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns are placing unprecedented stress on health systems and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Strengthening adaptation and resilience is now essential to safeguarding human well-being. This symposium brings together global experts to advance international […]

Planetary health: a contribution through cooperation, research and art

Warwick Hotel 14 Rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland

Registration link: here Also known as “the lungs of the earth”, the rainforest plays a pivotal role in providing global climate stability, regulating water cycles and biodiversity conservation. However, its intensified deforestation is leading to a severe disregulation of the planet’s environmental balance, compromising the health and livelihoods of current and future generations and disproportionately […]

Pathways to clean air, climate and health

Restaurant Vieux Bois (Av. de la Paix 12, 1202 Genève Genève) Restaurant Vieux Bois (Av. de la Paix 12, 1202 Genève Genève), Genève, Switzerland

Momentum on health, climate and clean air is accelerating, and the focus must now move to understanding how to implement new global commitment. This discussion will explore how governments, public health leaders and communities are driving change at the intersection of climate, clean air and health - and the practical pathways to a just and […]