WASHINGTON, May 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Forecasting Healthy Futures, in partnership with
Reaching the Last Mile, is pleased to announce its second annual
Forecasting Healthy Futures Global Summit to be held 18 to
20 June, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In the leadup to the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference
(COP29), which will be hosted by
Azerbaijan in November 2024, the Summit aims to convene diverse
stakeholders from the climate and health communities to build our
collective knowledge, strengthen new and existing partnerships, and
identify opportunities to move together from awareness and
political will to action and impact.
The cancellation of this year's UNFCCC regional climate
weeks will make it challenging for stakeholders to consider the
specific impact of climate change on the health of their
communities, to advance an understanding of potential solutions for
climate resilient health systems, and to prepare for effective
negotiations in Baku. The Summit,
in June, offers a critical opportunity to facilitate discussions
among stakeholders from around the world, ahead of COP29, about the links between climate change and
health, including through topics such as mental health, WASH, food
systems, financing, urban resilience, and the health workforce. The
Global Summit will be a hybrid meeting. While critical
stakeholders will gather in Baku,
this format will offer registrants and journalists who are unable
to attend in-person, an opportunity to participate virtually.
This year's Summit builds on the success of last year's
inaugural Summit, which brought together a diverse group of
nearly 200 leaders representing 140 organizations and more than 40
countries from government, private sector, NGOs, global finance
institutions and higher education in Abu
Dhabi ahead of COP28. At the
opening of the Summit, His Excellency Majid Al-Suwaidi, Director
General of COP28, pledged that health
would be a central focus at the upcoming COP in Dubai. Speakers addressed the need to
explore new partnerships and models to close gaps in climate
financing, and safeguard vulnerable countries and communities
against worsening weather extremes.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, during last year's
opening of the Global Summit, said: "The climate crisis affects all
of us so all of us must work together to respond across borders and
across sectors to build a healthier, fairer and more sustainable
future for all of us."
His Excellency Majid Al-Suwaidi, Director General of
COP28, during last year's keynote
address to the Summit, said: "Given the high and growing impact of
climate change on the health and wellbeing of our societies … we
must work together to ensure that this is a COP of solidarity,
which bridges the global North and South and brings in all
stakeholders including the private sector, scientists, civil
society, Indigenous peoples, women, and youth, leaving no-one
behind."
This year, under the theme From Awareness to Action, the
FHF Global Summit will feature dynamic discussions and workshops on
a range of key topics, including climate mitigation and urban
sustainability, water and sanitation innovations, food systems and
nutrition advances, trends in climate financing, mental health
adaptation strategies, media strategies for climate impact,
COP29 priorities and agenda, and
more. Participants expected to attend include climate and
health policymakers, ministry staff in Health, Climate,
Environment, and Finance, technical experts and health
practitioners, leaders in business and civil society, researchers
and innovators, donors and multilateral institution
decision-makers, and others working at the intersection of climate
and health.
Why Baku,
Azerbaijan?
The FHF Global Summit strives to work closely with each year's
incoming COP Presidency and therefore holds the annual Summit in
that year's hosting country. This enables the COP Presidency
planning teams to more easily attend the event, hear critical input
from a broad group of stakeholders, and find inspiration for ways
health can be integrated in the UNFCCC agenda.
To register for the in-person or virtual options, visit:
http://www.ForecastingHealthyFuturesSummit.org.
For more details regarding the event, please visit our FAQ
page.
Should you have any specific questions or require further
information, feel free to reach out to us at
info@forecastinghealthyfutures.org.
About Forecasting Healthy Futures
Forecasting Healthy Futures is a global coalition of leading
health and technology organizations committed to mobilizing the
political will, financial resources, and innovative solutions
needed to protect global health gains from the threats posed by
climate change. Malaria No More convenes and leads the consortium,
which was established with funding from Reaching the Last Mile.
Forecasting Health Futures' consortium partners include Reaching
the Last Mile, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial
Intelligence, the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE),
PATH, the Tableau Foundation, IBM's Weather Company, and the
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
About Malaria No More
Malaria No More envisions a world where no one dies from a
mosquito bite. More than a decade into our mission, our work has
contributed to historic progress toward this goal. Now, we're
mobilizing the political commitment, funding, and innovation
required to achieve what would be one of the greatest humanitarian
accomplishments – ending malaria within our generation.
Media contact:
Mindy
Mizell
Malaria No More, Senior Manager Media Relations &
Communications
mindy.mizell@malarianomore.org
WhatsApp +1.202.355.3690
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