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The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary collaboration monitoring the links between health and climate change. It convenes leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies around the world, publishing annual updates of its findings and providing decision-makers with evidence-based recommendations.
As underscored in the 2023 Lancet Countdown report, climate change is a global phenomenon, impacting all countries directly or indirectly, with important consequences for health. There is an urgent need for a just and equitable transition, through which climate change mitigation and adaptation are achieved in tandem with minimizing global inequities, saving lives, advancing health, and safeguarding livelihoods. Key priorities include phasing out fossil fuels, ensuring equitable access to renewable energy, and reducing energy poverty.
In this event, we considered what this just and equitable transition entails for Norway, including key equity concerns, challenges, and opportunities with regard to phasing out fossil fuels, decreasing consumption, and safeguarding ecologically valuable terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, as well as the health impacts.
Program
Moderator: Carl Henrik Gørbitz, Director, UiO:Life Science
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome | Jeanette H. Magnus, Leader, Centre for Global Health, Sustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo |
| 12:02 | Introduction | Carl Henrik Gørbitz, Director, UiO:Life Science, University of Oslo |
| 12:05 | The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change | Karyn Morrissey, Professor, Division, for Climate and Energy Policy, Department of Technology, Management, and Economics, Technical University of Denmark |
| 12:20 | Q&A | |
| 12:30 |
Consumption, sustainability, and health |
Arve Hansen, Researcher, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo |
| 12:40 | Energy poverty, health, and just transitions | Siddharth Sareen, Professor, Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, & Professor II, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen |
| 12:50 | Q&A | |
| 13:00 | Towards a longer now and a larger here | Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo |
| 13:15 | Q&A | |
| 13:28 | Closing remarks | Jeanette H. Magnus, Leader, Centre for Global Health, Sustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo |
About the Lancet Countdown
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international research collaboration among over 120 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe. It brings together climate scientists, engineers, energy specialists, economists, political scientists, public health professionals, and physicians to track the evolving relationship between climate change and health, including the health trends associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Each year the findings are published in The Lancet medical journal ahead of the UN climate change negotiations. The data evidences how climate change is affecting our health, the consequences of inadequate or delayed action, and the health benefits of a robust response.
Previous reports
Here you find the links to the previous reports:
The 2022 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
The 2021 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
The 2020 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
The 2019 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Organizers
Centre for Global Health, Sustainable Health Unit, UiO
UiO:Life Science
UiO:Energy and Environment
UiO:Democracy
UiO Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Norwegian Directorate of Health
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET)
Norwegian Centre for Climate Services (NCCS)
Norwegian Center for International Climate Research (CICERO)
The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)