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SUMMARY:CLIMACT Seminar series - Kathrine Vad\, ICRC
DTSTART:20230605T120000
DTEND:20230605T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:\nThroughout its 3rd series of seminars\, CLIMACT and its gues
 t speakers explored solutions to transform society to fight climate change
 \, adapt and mitigate further impacts. The final session will bring us in 
 the field of humanitarian aid of a well-known international organisation w
 ith Kathrine Vad\, Environment and Climate Change Adviser at the Internati
 onal Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).\n \n\nHuman crisis + climate cris
 is: How the ICRC addresses both\nPresented by Kathrine Vad I Environment a
 nd climate change advisor I International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC
 )\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross provides assistance and 
 protection to people affected by conflict and violence around the world. T
 his means helping people survive in the most dire contexts - providing urg
 ent\, life-saving support such as clean water\, food\, seeds and agricultu
 ral tools\, health care and so on.\nBut producing food\, medicine and esse
 ntial household items and shipping them around the world generates greenho
 use gas emissions. The plastic we package our life-saving products in soon
  becomes waste. The offices we occupy to ensure our operations can run con
 sume energy and water.\nI will show how the ICRC works to integrate sustai
 nability principles into humanitarian action\, whether by adapting our int
 erventions 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.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63821341998
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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