Day 1: April 29, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Day 2: April 30, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Virtual Workshop
Join the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for the first of four information-gathering workshops to inform the Commission developing the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions. Spanning two days, this workshop will:
- Reframe climate action through a health-focused lens, examining opportunities and challenges for leveraging health as a strategic anchor point to bridge diverse economic and geopolitical interests.
- Illustrate the need for systems transformation by identifying the global economic sectors driving climate change—including energy, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing, among others—and exploring pathways to net-zero emissions that also maximize health co-benefits.
- Explore the economic, political, and social systems shaping sector-specific and cross-sector responses to climate change, and identify the policy, governance, and behavioral shifts required to align economic and sustainability goals with improved health outcomes.
Featured Sessions:
- Establishing a Systems Approach to Climate Action Anchored in Health
- Opportunities & Challenges for Transformative Health-Centered Climate Action Across High-Emitting Sectors
- Lessons for Transformational Climate-Health Action
- Positioning Health as a Bridge Between Sectors and Systems
About the Roadmap: Lead by the NAM, the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions is a global initiative to place health at the center of climate action. By convening cross-sector leaders and leveraging evidence-based solutions, the Roadmap aims to drive transformative systems change that simultaneously reduces emissions, enhances climate resilience, and strengthens the foundations of human health and well-being.
Call for Information: In addition to participant contributions during the workshop, the Commission invites leaders and stakeholders across public and private sectors, civil society, and multilateral institutions—at both national and subnational levels—to submit concise, high-impact insights and materials. We are particularly seeking:
- Emerging evidence (e.g., research findings, data analyses) that illuminate the links between climate action and health.
- Case studies of success demonstrating proven or promising approaches, policies, or technologies that advances health and climate action.
- Priority research questions identifying crucial knowledge gaps for future exploration.
- Best practices and practical learnings on effectively aligning economic, environmental, and health objectives.
- Initiatives or entities (coalitions, multilateral institutions, organizations, etc.) working to address climate change 1) by adopting a systems change approach or 2) while considering health impacts of strategies, interventions, policies, etc.
These submissions will inform the Commission’s development of the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions. Please send relevant materials to [email protected].
Workshop Planning Committee:
- Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley (co-lead)
- Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-lead)
- Lewis Akenji, Hot or Cool Institute
- Maruxa Cardama, SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
- Kelly Levin, Systems Change Lab
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine—collectively, the National Academies—are independent, non-partisan, and tax exempt. The mission of the National Academies is the provision of trusted, evidence-based advice. It is essential to the execution of the mission that participants in our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. Statements and presentations made are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academies.
