Module 13: Mitigation & co-benefits

1. Module 13: Mitigation & co-benefits

2. Key messages in Module 13 • Climate change mitigation is vital, & the health sector has an important role to play • The framing of mitigation activities with relevance to health as ‘co-benefits’ or ‘win-win’ is strategic & useful • Many co-benefits projects are underway, & need to be scaled up where possible

3. Module 13 outline 1 2 Co-benefits of mitigation for health & envi Introduction to mitigation

4. 1 Introduction to mitigation

5. Definition of mitigation Mitigation: a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases Mitigation for the health sector: promoting & supporting initiatives that protect health by reducing GHG emissions Mitigation options exist for all emission sectors: Energy supply Industry Waste Transport Agriculture Buildings Forestry/forests

6. Brainstorm 3 types of mitigation activities your assigned sectorcould take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

7. Annual anthropogenic GHG’s 1970-2010 Source: IPCC AR5 WG3 (2013)

8. Greenhouse gas emissions by economic sectors Source: IPCC WG3 AR5 (2013)

9. Cartogram: Greenhouse gas emissions 2002 Source: Patz et al. (2007)

10. Cartogram: Climate change health impacts Estimated mortality (per million people) attributable to climate change in 2000 Source: Patz et al. (2007) Note: Uses only data on deaths from malaria & dengue fever, diarrhoea, malnutrition, drowning (& heatstroke for OECD countries)

11. Cumulative rising emissions, rising temperatures Source – Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, National Research Council (2011)

12. Relationship between CO2 & temperature Source – Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, National Research Council (2011)

13. 2 Co-benefits of mitigation for health & the environment

14. Mitigation & co-benefits – IPCC AR5: Co-benefits = climate mitigation + health gains from well-chosen health policies

15. Co-benefit examples • Public transport: carbon emissions, health • Reduced intake animal (ruminant) products: llll methane emissions, health • Clean energy sources: carbon emissions, lllllhealth • Access to reproductive health services:llllof planetary pressures (e.g. food, water), lllllmaternal & child health

16. Metropolitan Rapid Transit, Bangkok

17. Reducing intake of red meat: ‘Meatless Monday’

18. Solar at the Niue Foou Hospital

19. Solar cookers, Vietnam

20. Waste management at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

21. What changes to public health practice could you implement in your country that also has mitigation benefits for the climate?

22. What we covered in Module 13 1 2 Co-benefits of mitigation for health & envi Introduction to mitigation

23. Learning from Module 13 • Climate change mitigation is vital, & the health sector has an important role to play • The framing of mitigation activities with relevance to health as ‘co-benefits’ or ‘win-win’ is strategic & useful • Many co-benefits projects are underway, & need to be scaled up where possible

24. What action might you take in your work, given what you learnt in Module 13?

25. Coming up next… Module 12: Adaptation to climate change