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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

DevRes2021

DevRes2021

Advancing Sustainable Transformation

14 - 16 June, Online, 09:00 - 16.00 CET
SESSION

Plenary 2: Climate and health - ”Opportunities for health, societal and environmental transformation related to climate change and other converging global crises”

Chair: Maria Nilsson

Panelists:

  • Victoria Wibeck, Professor, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University, Sweden: how we relate to environmental challenges and sustainability, and how this can affect transformations overall.
  • Sir Andy Haines, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK: health impacts from climate change, and the health opportunities arising from climate change mitigation.
  • Dennis Garrity, Professor, UN Drylands Ambassador & Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kenya: how human land use, forest and agricultural production can be transformed to become more sustainable and source of prosperity and wellbeing
Speakers

Victoria Wibeck

Professor, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University, Sweden

Sir Andy Haines

Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Dennis Garrity

Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification | EverGreen Agriculture Partnership Chair, ICRAF