Asses­sing gover­nan­ce for cli­ma­te chan­ge and health: An explo­ra­to­ry approach

On 30 Sep­tem­ber 2024, in our web­i­nar series ‘Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Dia­lo­gues’, we focu­sed on asses­sing cli­ma­te chan­ge and health gover­nan­ce. Missed the web­i­nar? The recor­ding is now available!

The glo­bal impact of the cli­ma­te cri­sis has rea­ched unpre­ce­den­ted levels – espe­ci­al­ly with regard to our health. Thus, it is cru­cial to acce­le­ra­te actions across all sec­tors focus­sing on social and envi­ron­men­tal deter­mi­nants of health and the under­ly­ing cau­ses of the cli­ma­te cri­sis. Clear and strong poli­ti­cal gover­nan­ce in the area of cli­ma­te chan­ge and (public) health is an essen­ti­al basis for the deve­lo­p­ment of cli­ma­te-resi­li­ent health sys­tems and socie­ties. As the cli­ma­te cri­ses pro­gres­ses, it is important to deve­lop appro­pria­te tools for evi­dence-infor­med decis­i­on-making to help iden­ti­fy strengths and weak­ne­s­ses in the respec­ti­ve sys­tems.

The PHONIC (Public Health Ope­ra­ti­oNs for clI­ma­te aCtion)-project, a coope­ra­ti­on bet­ween the Lud­wig-Maxi­mi­li­ans-Uni­ver­si­ty Munich, the Helm­holtz Zen­trum Munich, the Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Eas­tern Afri­ca Hub and the CPHP, aims to deve­lop a prac­ti­cal gui­dance for iden­ti­fy­ing prio­ri­ty public health ope­ra­ti­ons for cli­ma­te action. The focus of the pro­ject is on the deve­lo­p­ment and pilo­ting of indi­ca­tors asses­sing cli­ma­te chan­ge and (public) health gover­nan­ce struc­tures in Ger­ma­ny and Kenya.

This web­i­nar pro­vi­ded an over­view of the latest fin­dings and con­clu­si­ons from the PHONIC pro­ject. In par­ti­cu­lar, the chal­lenges and obs­ta­cles to making gover­nan­ce struc­tures ass­essa­ble and tan­gi­ble will be high­ligh­ted.

Tog­e­ther with Dr. Karin Geffert, Chair for Public Health and Health Ser­vices Rese­arch Insti­tu­te for Medi­cal Infor­ma­ti­on Pro­ces­sing, Bio­me­try and Epi­de­mio­lo­gy (IBE) & Pet­ten­ko­fer School of Public Health, Mel­vi­ne Oti­e­no, Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Eas­tern Afri­can Hub, and Ann­kath­rin von der Haar, CPHP, we dis­cus­sed the fol­lo­wing ques­ti­ons:

• How can gover­nan­ce struc­tures for health and cli­ma­te chan­ge be asses­sed in terms of their strengths and weak­ne­s­ses?
• What les­sons can be lear­ned from app­ly­ing an inter­na­tio­nal frame­work to dif­fe­rent local con­texts?

Dr. Karin Geffert

Chair for Public Health and Health Ser­vices Rese­arch Insti­tu­te for Medi­cal Infor­ma­ti­on Pro­ces­sing, Bio­me­try and Epi­de­mio­lo­gy (IBE) & Pet­ten­ko­fer School of Public Health

Mel­vi­ne Oti­e­no

Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Eas­tern Afri­can Hub

Ann­kath­rin von der Haar

Rese­arch Asso­cia­te, CPHP

Doro­thea Baltruks

Head of Rese­arch & Poli­cy, CPHP (mode­ra­ti­on)

Recor­ding of the Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Dia­lo­gue

“Asse­sing gover­nan­ce for cli­ma­te chan­ge and health: An explo­ra­to­ry approach” was the ele­venth event of the CPHP web­i­nar series ‘Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Dia­lo­gues’, a month­ly exch­an­ge with Ger­man and inter­na­tio­nal sci­en­tists, poli­cy makers and civil socie­ty actors to joint­ly deve­lop ide­as for a para­digm shift towards equi­ty, health and well-being within pla­ne­ta­ry boun­da­ries.

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