Below are copies of presentations or transcripts of speeches by several of the Climate Change Symposium participants.
Further information about PSN publications, presentations and events is available in News & Events.
Photo: The Climate Change Symposium, 1 March 2011.
Credit: © Richard Huggard/ Commat.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Susannah Mayhew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and PSN Steering Group Member.
Presentation suggesting key strategies for responding to climate change and advancing integrated population and climate change approaches.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Jotham Musinguzi, Director, Partners in Population Africa Regional Office
Presentation highlighting the need for strong leadership and political commitment in order to advance integrated population and climate change strategies.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Karen Hardee, PAI.
Presentation outlining findings of a review demonstrating the ways in which the least developed countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change are identifying population dynamics as significant to climate change mitigation.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Prof David Mwakyusa, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania.
Presentation sharing insights from Tanzania on the ways in which population dynamics are interacting with the impacts of climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Jonathan Porritt, Founding Director, Forum for the Future.
Presentation arguing the moral imprative for making the link between population issues and climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Vivienne Nathanson, Head of Science and Ethics, British Medical Association.
Presentation advocating rights-based sexual and reproductive health approaches as a means of responding to the links between population and climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Paul Wilkinson, Reader in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Presentation highlighting the need for multiple climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, including major behavioural change to reduce carbon emissions and investment in family planning.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Negash Teklu, Executive Director, PHE Ethiopia.
Presentation sharing experience and benefits of interated population, health and environment approaches in areas of Ethiopia impacted by climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Siri Tellier, University of Copenhagen, School of Global Health
Presentation examining the connections between climate change, population, family planning and women's empowerment.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Hon Prof Peter Anyang Nyong'o, Minister of Medical Services, Kenya.
Presentation sharing insights from Kenya on the ways in which population dynamics are interacting with the impacts of climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Professor Anthony Costello, UCL Institute for Global Health andChair of the Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change.
Presentation examining the links between health, climate change and population dynamic, calling for urgent investment in reproductive health programmes.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Professor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor of Population, University of California, Berkley
Presentation sharing lessons-learnt from undertaking advocacy on population issues, to inform efforts to integrate population and climate change issues.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Honourable Professor Ephraim Kamuntu, Minister of State for Finance/Planning, Uganda.
Presentation sharing insights from Uganda on the ways in which population dynamics are interacting with the impacts of climate change.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Dr Vik Mohan, Project Director, Blue Ventures Madagascar.
Presentation sharing experiences from Blue Venture's project in Madagascar, delivering family planning programmes as part of an integrated Population, Health and Environment project in an area of Marine conservation.
Date: 01/03/2010
Author(s) Karen Newman, Co-ordinator, PSN.
Presentation summarising key issues and policy considerations from the symposium.