Séminaire
Environnement
International
Société
3rd CLIMACT Seminar Series - Special Edition - Episode #16
Throughout this new series of seminars, CLIMACT and its guest speakers will explore solutions to transform society to fight climate change, adapt and mitigate further impacts. This third season of online CLIMACT seminars will take place on bi-weekly basis, from 12:00 to 13:15, starting on 3 October 2022. Participants are welcome to take part in the discussion in English or French.
- Date
- Schedules
- Place
- Virtuel, On zoom
- Format
- On site
The seminar will be held online, with the usual Zoom link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63821341998
Human crisis + climate crisis: How the ICRC addresses both
The International Committee of the Red Cross provides assistance and protection to people affected by conflict and violence around the world. This means helping people survive in the most dire contexts - providing urgent, life-saving support such as clean water, food, seeds and agricultural tools, health care and so on.
But producing food, medecine and essential household items and shipping them around the world generates greenhouse gas emissions. The plastic we package our life-saving products in soon becomes waste. The offices we occupy to ensure our operations can run consume energy and water.
I will show how the ICRC works to integrate sustainability principles into humanitarian action, whether by adapting our interventions to help people be more resilient to climate change or reducing the environmental footprint of our operations. And also how we engage with the international community to ensure greater consideration for conflict-affected communities.
Presented by Kathrine Vad I Environment and climate change advisor I International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)