Upcoming Event: Climate change, human health and the role of business with WBA (20th Oct)

Join us for our upcoming complimentary event ‘Climate change and human health: How business can empower, educate, and build community resilience’ taking place virtually on 20th October at 15.00-18.00 CEST / 14.00-17.00 BST / 08.00-11.00 CDT.

This virtual event, run in partnership with Walgreens Boots Alliance, will explore the critical intersection between the climate crisis and human health. We’ll delve into the role of business and collaboration in tackling in these issues, with a focus on how business can build systemic resilience and empower consumers and communities.

You can register online for free here.

Throughout a number of dynamic sessions, experts and leading global voices will:

• Highlight the climate health issues where business can make a difference, assessing what companies are doing today and where the agenda is headed post COP2
• Explore the role of business and collaboration in building systemic resilience, with a focus on what objectives collaborative initiatives should set and how they should seek to deliver on these
• Examine how business can educate and enable communities to act and build climate resilience, including a discussion on technology as a tool to empower consumers

You can view the full agenda here.

We’ll hear from a number of leading experts in the space, including:

• Dr Richard Smith, chair, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
• Dr Aaron Bernstein, interim director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Suzy Parker, commercial leader, global sustainability, GSK Consumer Health
• Una Kent, vice president CSR international, Walgreens Boots Alliance
• Fiona Adshead, chair, Sustainable Healthcare Coalition
• Marc Donovan, chief pharmacist, Boots UK
• Richard Wright, behavioural science director, Unilever
• Edward Maibach, director, Center for Climate Change Communication, Medical Society Consortium on Climate Change and Health
• Fiona Ball, group director, Bigger Picture, Sky

Once again, you can register online for free here.