Short Abstract

The panel explores the climate-health nexus, focusing on how power dynamics and exclusivity shape outcomes particularly in the Global South. Contributions will analyse political, economic and ethical challenges to and solutions towards equitable and just futures in global health under climate stress

Description

Climate change represents one of the most critical 21st Century development challenges - reshaping global health and well-being. Extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity disproportionately burden vulnerable populations, creating a climate-health exclusivity that entrenches existing global, national and local disparities.

This panel seeks to explore pathways towards a more just development future by:

1. Analysing how established political and economic power structures influence health outcomes.

2. Exploring local agency in adapting to climate-driven health crises, from innovative local governance to traditional knowledge systems.

3. Discussing transformative policies and ethical frameworks that can deal with exclusivity and foster equitable development and health resilience across nations.

The proposed panel directly addresses the conference's core theme in the following ways:

• Reimagining Development: Critiquing the failure of traditional development models to protect health in the face of climate crisis, advocating for new, ecologically conscious, and health-centric frameworks.

• Power and Exclusivity: Exploring how contemporary economic and political power dynamics create and maintain climate-health inequities.

• Agency: Prioritizing discussions that centre the agency and innovative solutions of marginalized groups.

We propose a panel of four to five speakers, with a Chair and a Discussant. We are committed to achieving a diverse group vis-à-vis geography, gender, and career stage, and will actively seek participants who can offer perspectives from the following domains:

• The political economy of climate change and health.

• Perspectives from communities and/or grassroots organizations from the Global South dealing directly with climate-health impacts.

• Global climate and/or health ethics.

This Panel has 2 pending paper proposals.
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