GPHW2023: The Issues for Adaptation to Climate Change

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 04:00 – 07:00 (CEST)

Event Description: National Center for Public Health will organize the roundtable discussion on the issues for adaptation to climate change jointly with MOH, Environmental Security Study Center of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Mongolian Red Cross. Agenda of the event will cover presentations from each organizers on impact of climate change on human health, public health measures for adaptation to climate change and policy and regulatory gaps in tackling the climate crisis. The participants will be from different stakeholders related to climate change. Public health professionals and representatives from academic community will participate as well. The objectives are information and experience sharing, have common understanding on current situation on and the ways for tackling the climate crisis. After the presentations were made, the participants will conduct focus group discussions on how to adapt and to be resilient to climate change, who will play what role for the adaptation and building resilience. Use of social mobilization strategy for empowering and protection will be discussed. Plenary session will summarize the ideas of participants and provide consensus building on the issues discussed, on the basis of common understanding draft recommendations will be developed. Expected outcomes are the participants will have more knowledge and understanding on climate change and its impacts on human health, importance of adaptation to climate change through policy and regulation framework and action plans to implement for the adaptation and resilience of whole society through capacity building.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: In-person

Language(s): Mongolian

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: Government Building XI, Sambuu street-11, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: On-site registration is available on the day of the event.