Presentations Directory

• June 2024

• Tue 11

  Urban form features determine spatio-temporal variation of ambient temperature: Assessing the transferability of land Use classes effect across diverse Urban Contexts

  June 11, 2024 / 09:30 – 11:00 Land use: sectoral interventions

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  Presenter:

  Aicha Zekar

  Driven by ongoing urbanization and accelerated global warming, urban heat stress develops into a major threat for a large part of the world population. While the literature is clear about the relevance of urban form in modifying urban heat, the spatially explicit context of heat modifications by the built environment is insufficiently explored across cities. […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Land Use

  Research Methods: Digital evidence synthesis and machine-learning methods
• Tue 11

  Current challenges in agricultural intensification and land use change in Latin America: land sparing, land sharing, rebound effect, and leakage.

  June 11, 2024 / 09:30 – 11:00 Land use: sectoral interventions

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  Presenter:

  Julio Díaz-José

  Humanity faces a double threat: burgeoning food demand from a growing population and ecological degradation fueled by agricultural expansion. Crop production can be increased through cropland expansion (more land), and crop intensification (producing more per unit of cropland). Embracing sustainable intensification on existing agricultural land rather than the unsustainable quest for ever-greater acreage has been […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Land Use

  Research Methods: Digital evidence synthesis and machine-learning methods
• Mon 10

  Advancing Climate, Health and Equity Outcomes through Local Action in the Indo-Pacific

  June 10, 2024 / 15:00 – 16:30 Advancing climate, health and equity outcomes through local action in the Indo-Pacific

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  Presenter:

  Kathryn Bowen

  In November/December 2023, the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)) along with Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF) and the Climate CATCH Lab at the University of Melbourne (UoM), partnered to deliver a six-week program on climate, health, and equity training to 15 Fellows (cross-sectoral policy makers and interdisciplinary researchers) […]
• Mon 10

  Developing guidelines for economic evaluation of the health impacts of climate (in)action, enabling a consistent, comparable approach

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Rachel Huxley

  In funding research in the climate and health field, economic evaluation has come up as critical evidence that policymakers need to identify and develop effective policy for climate and health. However, there are gaps in research capacity to deliver the evidence needed. Most economists either work on health or climate/environment economic analysis and they are […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Other evidence synthesis
• Mon 10

  Guidelines of best practice climate and health modelling. The GReenhouse Gas And Health Modelling Studies (GRAHMS) Checklist.

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Rosie Green

  As part of the Pathfinder Commission, a systematic umbrella review was conducted which synthesised disparate evidence on health and green-house gas (GHG) emissions resulting from climate change mitigation modelling. We observed discrepancy in conduct and reporting of these studies across interventions and contexts, which often required assumptions to be made when synthesising those estimates. This […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis, Model inter-comparisons and other collections of climate policy scenarios
• Mon 10

  Supporting the evaluation and evidence synthesis landscape in climate and health in low- and middle-income countries

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  David Ameyaw

  Climate change is one of the biggest threats currently facing humanity. It is a is a global threat to stability. With its impacts in the form of extreme weather events and rising water body levels, climate change exposes present and future generations to lifelong health and livelihood harm, particularly in regions with low adaptive and […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Evidence mapping
• Mon 10

  The Pathfinder Initiative umbrella review – methods, findings and next steps

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Rosie Green

  As part of the Pathfinder Initiative, a systematic umbrella review was conducted of evidence from implemented actions and modelling studies of climate mitigation actions on green-house gas and health outcomes. We present what we did, what we found and what we plan to do with the findings for influencing policy and research.

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Evidence mapping, Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Mon 10

  Recommendations and key messages from WWCS climate and health workshop for policy makers

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Sarah Whitmee

  As part of the preparation for the What Works Climate Summit, a series of meetings was held, one of which was organised and sponsored by the Pathfinder team at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The meeting discussed harmonising reporting, supporting evidence uptake, and helping develop global capacity in evidence synthesis. This presentation will […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Other evidence synthesis