Integrating inclusive water strategies in climate services
Session summary: A collective call for action for Water for Climate Mental Health Resilience to enhance understanding of the current situations of interlinkages of Climate Risks - Water - Mental Health by assessing gaps and needs in the existing support mechanisms through capturing reflections from different geographic regions, voices from practices and youth and their capacities to integrate support services in water strategies.
Programme:
Welcome word: Bartel Van de Walle, UNU-MERIT - Director.
Scope of the session: Sanae Okamoto, UNU-MERIT - Researcher.
Opening keynote speech: Xiaomeng Shen, UNU-EHS - Director, Professor / UNU-ViE Vice Rector in Europe
Moderation: Nidhi Nagabhatla, UNU CRIS - Senior Research Fellow.
Session support: Kariuki Weru, UNU EHS - Researcher.
Introduction to the session: Sanae Okamoto, UNU-MERIT.
Panel Speakers.
Insights from different geographic regions, Gender and vulnerability issues:
–Tahseen Jafry: Director of the Mary Robinson Center for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University.
– Quincia Gumbs Marie: Hon. Minister of Sustainability, Innovation & the Environment, / Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers, Minister of Education and Social Development at Government of Republic of Anguilla.
– Deodato Xavier Dias: Ministry of Health, São Tomé and Príncipe.
– Amal Sarsour: Researcher, psychosocial well-being support for women in Palestine, UNU-CRIS
– Kehkashan Basu: Founder, Green Hope Foundation - Youth led global social innovation enterprise, Canada
Insights from practice
– Matteo Innocenti: Psychiatrist / Psychotherapist, Italian Institute for Planetary Health, Istituto Psicologico Italiano, Italian Climate Change Anxiety Association, European Climate Pact Ambassador, Italy ([ Ссылка ]).
– Kenneth Yongabi Anchang: Director PRF Research Group, Imo State University, Nigeria.
Insights from Disaster Risk Reductions, Emergency response, Water insecurities:
– Jekulin Lipi Saikia: United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, Asia-Pacific focal point - DRR, UN MGCY, India
– Duminda Perera: UNU-INWEH DRR, Water disasters and threats.
Elena Lopez Gunn: Director, ICATALIST, Spain.
Closing: Robert Oakes, UNU-EHS.
