Health as a Motivator of Climate Policy and Household Green Behavior
COP23 – Health Day
Health as a Motivator of Climate Policy and Household Green Behavior
Evidence has shown that invoking health as the “human face of climate change” as a positive argument for climate action, e.g. huge health co-benefits from mitigation, motivate households and policy makers to implement mitigation actions. Especially in OECD countries, where households control 50% of their countries’ emissions, this can have substantial effects on population health.
Speaker
- Dr Dorothee Amelung, PhD, Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey (@UniOfSurrey), UK, formerly Heidelberg University (@HeidelbergU)
- Dr Anneliese Depoux (@adepoux), PhD, Co-director Centre Virchow-Villermé (@VirchowVillerme) for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Dr Alina Herrmann, MD, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University (@HeidelbergU); Resident, SRH Kurpfalz Hospital
- Prof. Rainer Sauerborn, Senior Professor, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University (@HeidelbergU); Visiting Professor at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health
- Stephan Savarese, Sauvons Le Climat (SLC), @ Vice-President, Saving Our Planet (@SavOurPla) President, ForCES President , DOJO General Partner, Climate & Energy Expertise, Education and Training
Dr Rainer Sauerborn – The eight roles of health in climate policy and citizen behavior
Anneliese Depoux – Health is the human face of climate change: communicating climate as a health issue
Stephan Savarese – Stop burning coal for health’s sake
Alina Herrmann – Households as key actors in climate change mitigation – preferences and implications for policies
Dorothee Amelung – Health co-benefits as a motivator for households to implement mitigation action
- YouTube video of the webcast recording of the whole event
- COP 23 Health Day events coverage overview
- Storify (closed 16th May 2018)
