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Climate-Smart Healthcare for a Healthier Planet7 minutesFormat: Opening speechSpeaker:Sonia (overall event MC) to introduce the event, welcome the audience, and thank you for joining us from around the world.Opening fireside chat with:COP26 Climate Champion -Nigel ToppingDirector General of the World Health Organization -Dr Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusThe chat will discuss the twin crisis healthcare is going through (tackling both COVID-19 and climate change) and the hopes for the future.Section 1: “People” - Building a climate-smart healthcare system starts with people, and we need to ensure that all visions of the future, solutions, and innovations start by responding to what people need. We start our journey by hearing from patients, medical students, and healthcare professionals at the front-line to understand what the key problems of today are and what they view as the needs for the future.7 minutesFormat: ‘Teaser’ 1 in conversation with Dame Jackie and RosamundSpeakers:COP26 Ambassador, NHS -Dame Jackie Daniel (interviewer)Grassroots Campaigner on asthma and health issues related to air pollution -Rosamund Adoo Kissi-Debrah20 minutesFormat: Panel discussion 1 -“Reimagining the future: people” Moderator: Editor in Chief, BMJ -Fiona GodleeParticipants:Former Liaison Officer for Public Health, Medical Students' Association -Omnia El OmraniHighveld Community Youth Member -Mapule Mdluli(virtual)3Prof./Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Malaysia -Dr. Jemilah Mahmood (virtual)Executive Director / Co-Founder, Indigenous Climate Action -Eriel Tchekwie DerangeSection 2: “Technology and Innovation” -Building on what we have heard from the front-line on the needs for the future, we look at what seeds of the future exist by hearing from health system leaders around the world. We explore the gaps between where we are and the future we need, and ideate which technological and innovative solutions are needed to get us there.6 minutesFormat:‘Teaser 2’ Vox pop VideoParticipants: healthcare professionals sharing their wishes for the future of healthcare around the world, from the following organisations:Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)The NHSThe Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)20 minutesFormat: Panel discussion 2 -“Reimagining the future: innovation and tech” Moderator: Health Care Without Harm -Josh Karliner Participants:Executive Vice President, Chief Advocacy & Sustainability Officer, Providence Health System, USA -AliSantoreExecutive Secretary, Andean Health Organisation -Maria del Carmen Calle (virtual)Chief Sustainability Officer, National Health Service, England -Nick WattsAnaesthetist from London -Dr Arun TohaniSection 3: “Systems” -We now know what people need, and what technologies can get us there, but to get full-systems change we need coordination and collaboration at a national and international level. In our final section, we explore how large-scale change can occur through hearing from the visions of different scale health systems (state, national, international), and the solutions we need to get there (policy changes, financing, etc.)6minutesFormat:‘Teaser 3’ Intervention by a health professional Speakers:Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières,Geneva -Stephen Cornish20 minutesFormat: Panel discussion 3 -“Reimagining the future: systems”Moderator: Deputy Director, Centre of Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Poornima PrabhakaranParticipants:Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Kerala, India -Veena George (virtual)USA Senior Health Advisor -John BalbusHead of Climate Change and Health Programme at the World Health Organization -Dr Diarmid Campbell-LendrumSenator of Santiago, Chile -Senator Guido Girardi4 minutesClosing remarks are to be delivered by our MC, Sonia Roschnik,International Climate Policy Director, Health Care Without Harm, tying the sections together and summarising key actions highlighted during the session and further reinforcing the need for healthcare actors globally to collaborate and drive towards a healthier planet.

OPEN DIALOGUE TOPICParis in action: How can we boost the ambition of climate action under Paris?The COP26 Presidency set out four goals across adaptation, mitigation, collaboration and finance. As we arrive in Glasgow, real progress has been made but collectively there is much more to do. This discussion will consider how the past few years have gone, and look at what can be done to accelerate climate action in the first half of this decade.Guiding questionsWhat are your most important examples of successes and challenges in ambitious climate action? What are the ingredients needed for ambitious climate action?What kind of ambition is needed across adaptation, loss and damage, mitigation, and finance at COP26 and beyond to safeguard vulnerable communities?What is needed to help drive more political ambition across all climate action? How do the concepts of ‘ambition’, 'net zero' and 'nature-based solutions' shape climate action in practice?TIMING / LOCATIONTime: Thursday 4 November, 15:00-16:30Location: Action Room 2-Zone BPROGRAMMEOpening remarks by COP PresidentOpening remarks by UNFCCC Executive SecretaryInterventions by Observers and Parties. Note: interventions alternating between Observers and Parties, with two interventions from each. Observers will be called upon in reverse alphabetical order.Closing remarks