Keynote

Marina Romanello is Executive Director at the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change, Climate Change and Health Researcher at the University College London. Key messages: Climate change causes widespread human suffering today, affecting millions globally. Continued climate inaction poses high costs to human well-being, with escalating health risks from increasing global temperatures.… Continue reading Keynote – Climate Solutions & Health: The Lancet Countdown

Andrew Haines is a Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Key messages: Rigorous evidence synthesis is crucial for effective, efficient, and equitable climate action that safeguards both human and planetary health. Climate actions often yield significant human health co-benefits that are frequently overlooked, emphasizing the… Continue reading Keynote – Towards enhanced evidence synthesis: learning from the health science

Julian Elliott is the founder of the Future Evidence Foundation (producer of Covidence) and the Alliance for Living Evidence (Alive), and a Professor at Cochrane Australia within Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (Australia). Key messages: The evidence ecosystem in health has not always been as we know it today. It has… Continue reading Keynote – Living evidence & other frontiers in evidence synthesis – providing tailored evidence when it is needed

Rohini Pande is Henry Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics at Yale University. Key messages: Rigorous instrument evaluations are critical to support effective, efficient and equitable evidence-based climate policies. Climate policy evaluations can help us to understand what climate solutions work, under what conditions and why… Continue reading Keynote – Rigorous policy evaluations to support effective climate policies

Jim Skea is IPCC Chair for the seventh assessment cycle, Chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission and Professor of Sustainable Energy at the Imperial College London (UK). Key messages: IPCC is a unique science-policy interface. Progress in international policy is directly linked to the various assessments by the IPCC synthesizing the state of scientific knowledge.… Continue reading Keynote – What Works? IPCC evidence for understanding climate policy pathways and implementation

Winston Chow is Co-Chair of the IPCC’s Working Group II for its seventh assessment cycle, and Professor of Urban Climate at Singapore Management University’s College of Integrative Studies. Key messages: Local climate solutions have a large potential for meeting climate goals and more often than not co-align synergistically with improving human well-being & health. Context… Continue reading Keynote – Climate Solutions & cities: Priorities and evidence needs for the upcoming IPCC Special Report

Massimo Tavoni is the Director of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment, and full professor of climate economic modeling at Politecnico di Milano. Key messages: Model intercomparisons continue to deliver critical lines of evidence to understand the solution space and alternative pathways for reaching the climate goals. Our understanding of feasible pathways to… Continue reading Keynote – Integrating ex-ante and ex-post evidence for effective learning in science and policy

Edith Ofwona Adera is Regional Principal Officer and Lead Coordinator, Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) at the African Development Bank Group. Key messages: The global goal on adaptation requires urgent progress on measuring and tracking adaptation Key insights from AAAP There is an urgent need to support adaptation action in Africa as well as rigorous… Continue reading Keynote – The Global Goal on Adaptation and the African Adaptation Acceleration Program

Key messages: There will be no sustainable development without solving the climate crisis, and solving the climate crises will only be successful if broader planetary boundaries are respected and wider development goals are met. The Global SDG Synthesis Coalition is one of the most ambitious attempts to inform an international process with rigorous evidence. It… Continue reading Keynote – Accelerating progress towards the SDGs: insights from the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition

Samantha Cheng is Director of Conservation Evidence at World Wildlife Fund. Key messages: Systematic mapping of the evidence on climate solutions is critical for efficient synthesis efforts, the identification of evidence gaps as well as efficiently allocating scarce research funding resources The evidence base for NbIs is significant and growing - with the majority assessing… Continue reading Keynote – Mapping out the evidence on the role of natural climate solutions in climate change mitigation

Cheikh Mbow is Director General at Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Sénégal. Key messages: Many land-based adaptation and mitigation climate solutions can also combat desertification, land degradation and enhanced food security. Most of the response options assessed contribute positively to sustainable development and other societal goals (high confidence).  IPCC assessment would benefit from more efficient closing… Continue reading Keynote – Assessing land-based climate solutions in IPCC assessments