MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.
Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the conference.
From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”
Annie Quick at Healthy Planet Better World - "Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?"Watch this video on YouTube Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New Economics Foundation, outlines some of the issues around inequality and...
David Powell at Healthy Planet Better World - "Kenya's progress on inequality & sustainability"Watch this video on YouTube Environment programme lead David Powell discusses a partnership between the New Economic Foundation and the African Centre for...
John Lanchbery at Healthy Planet - "The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?"Watch this video on YouTube John Lanchbery is the Principal Advisor on climate change at the RSPB and a lead member of the BirdLife International team on climate change....
Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.
Sally Weintrobe discusses the relationship between mental health, climate change, and a culture of uncare, arguing that climate change is a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting mental health.
Kevin Anderson at HPBW - "Accelerating towards Paris: how informed hope & action can trump despair"Watch this video on YouTube The IPCC’s latest report, and the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement have reshaped the climate change agenda. Whilst...
Kate Raworth at Healthy Planet, Better World - "Why it's time for a new version of human prosperity"Watch this video on YouTube Could doughnuts actually be good for us? Why it’s time for a new version of human prosperity. Humanity’s central...
