COP28 
December 8, 2023 from 13.00 to 15.00 | Burkina Faso COP28 Pavilion

Abstract
The event will focus on health co-benefits and will discuss an evidence base for improving food and health policies in a changing climate. Since the impacts of climate change on health and food security are mostly localised, this event will highlight and quantify the negative health impacts on health, food security, and nutrition that can be attributed to climate change, focusing on Burkina Faso and West Africa. Second, using data from more than 120 countries we will discuss how heat stress and droughts has had an increasingly negative impact on food security, amplifying inequalities and highlighting how climate change-food security hotspots are evolving over time.
Finally, an international panel of experts will discuss the implications of these findings for policies that can reduce food insecurity and undernutrition; and build resilience in lower-income countries.

SPEAKERS

Shouro Dasgupta, environmental economist at CMCC, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).