EXHAUSTION’s ambition is to substantially advance the knowledge and develop new evidence regarding the links and correlated impacts between climate change, extreme heat, air pollution, and human health in Europe, specifically cardiopulmonary diseases.
The meeting will be held online on the 3rd June, 2022 from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm (WET), and will occur in a virtual platform.
The first part of the program will focus on updates from research on air pollution and wildland fire emission projections and give the state of the art from studies on temperature and health effects.
The second part of the program will be focusing the main needs of southern European stakeholders.
We have organised the last part of the program to promote the discussion and support a Science Policy Brief and a list of recommendations for future EXHAUSTION research.
PROGRAMME
08:45 – 09:00: Login and digital introductions of participants
09:00 – 09:15: Welcome note and introduction to EXHAUSTION’s ambition and stakeholder meeting goals
Kristin Aunan (CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Norway) – EXHAUSTION coordinator
09:15 – 09:30: Mental warm-up exercise:
Key questions to be answered during this session
09:30 – 09:45: The importance of including scientific evidence to local and regional policies
Keynote speaker: Porto Municipality Vice Mayor Filipe Manuel Ventura Camões de Almeida Araújo
09:45– 10:30: Effects of Air Temperature on Cardiopulmonary Mortality and Morbidity in Southern Europe, by EXAUSTION team
Heatwave in Athens, by Klea Katsouyanni ( National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Wildfires - Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health, by Sofiev Mikhail (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland) (climate change and wildfires) and Massimo Stafoggia (ASL Roma 1, Italy) (health)
10:30 – 10:45: Types of measures taken to protect people from extreme heat in Greece and major knowledge gaps that should be tackled by our consortium
Vassiliki Karaouli, General Director of Public Health and Quality of Life at Ministry of Health.
10:45 – 11:00: Discussion
11:00 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 11:30: Combined impacts of climate and air pollution, including wildfires, on human health with the app hackAir: the benefits it may bring for the users and a brief demonstration of the tool by Panagiota Syropoulou (Draxis, Greece)
11:30 – 12:00: Break out groups: Impacts of science on policy – discussion
(Stakeholders spread by several rooms to discuss and provide input to a draft Science Policy Brief)
12:00 – 12:15: Stakeholders’ contributions to the Science Policy Brief – key points from each break-out group
12:15 – 12:30: Summary in plenary, greetings
Ana Monteiro and Helena Madureira