Keynote: Living within Earth System Boundaries requires Earth System Justice, Fast Tracks: Accelerating climate action to better meet growing needs, Geneva, 8 November

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Report: As scientists warn that the climate crisis is unfolding faster than predicted, and that other planetary limits are increasingly overtaken, how can aid and health stakeholders respond to growing needs of populations while moving faster on reducing their emissions? The capacity of organisations to meet populations’ needs in an equitable way may actually not be hampered but rather reinforced by ambitious climate strategies. How can solutions favour adaptation, resilience and mitigation together? Gathering our community of partners, experts, peers and colleagues across a variety of sectors, panellists and participants shared their views and practical experience in the face of this critical challenge.

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Keynote speeches | Tackling together the planet and people’s growing needs in the face of an existential threat

In this session, keynote speakers looked at climate and environmental action through different perspectives: scientific, operational and policy acceleration. They spoke to the urgency, the frameworks and the benefits of acting now in the interest of the planet and people, as humanity needs to take a leap forward and collaborate towards faster, effective climate action.

Professor Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment, University of Amsterdam, previously co-chair of the Earth Commission with Johan Rockström

Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-president, ICRC

David Nabarro, Strategic Director of 4SD Foundation, Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, former Special Adviser to the UNSG on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Moderated by Béatrice Godefroy | Director of Public Policy Engagement, Climate Action Accelerator