Ethical Perspectives on Health Impacts of Climate Change | NCBio / NordForsk Day 1

Conference on Ethical Perspectives on Health Impacts of Climate Change, hosted by The Nordic Committee on Bioethics and NordForsk at Umeå Folkets hus 22 September 2022.

Topics include Arctic well-being, global health, ecocide, climate justice, and more

Read more about the The Nordic Committee on Bioethics here : https://ncbio.org/.

Program:

13:00-13:45 Keynote: Health & Climate – the Scientific Facts and Ethical Reflections
Joacim Rocklöv.  Humboldt Prof, Heidelberg University, Visiting Prof. Epidemiology Umeå University Dept. Public Health and Clinical Medicine

13:45-15:15 Nordic Effects, Vulnerabilities, and Responsibilities
“Climate Change, Ethics, and Arctic Human Well-being: Reflections from research in Greenlandic Coastal Communities”

Joan Nymand Larsen. Professor of Economics, University of Akureyri, Iceland, and Stefansson Arctic Institute, Senior Scientist and Research Director. Coordinating lead author for the Polar Regions chapter of the IPCC WG-II 5th assessment report. Expertise in Arctic climate change impacts and adaptation.

“Interdisciplinarity research – Holistic view for Health and Well-being”

Birgitta Evengård. Professor of Infectious Diseases at Umeå University, Sweden with a background in parasitology (K.I.). Expertise on infectious diseases and climate change in the north.

“Climate change and the One Health perspective in the North”

Arja Rautio. Professor of Arctic Research, VP Research U Arctic, Director of Thule Institute, Group leader for Artic Health in Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu. Expertise on One Health and changing climate in the Arctic.

15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:15 Bioethics and Moral Changes (The Bioethics Perspective)
”How Bioethics can Help Mitigate Climate Emissions”

Cheryl Cox MacPherson, Professor in Bioethics, School of Medicine, St George University of Grenada, West Indies. Editor of Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy: Climate Change and Health (Springer Press, 2016) and author of “Energy, Emissions, and Public Health Ethics” Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics 2019). “Why Bioethics Should Address Climate Change and How It Might Do So” (in Bioethical Insights, 2016). 

16:15 End stream.

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