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Incorporating Bioethics into Nationally Determined Contributions in South America

A Regional Seminar (hybrid) “On the Road to 10 Years of the Paris Agreement: Incorporating Bioethics into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in South America” will be held on February 4 and 5, 2025, organised by the Climate Ethics and Development Foundation with the support of the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE). 

This seminar aims to provide officials, consultants, and organizations based in South American countries with tools for incorporating justice, human rights and ethical considerations into the development, monitoring and evaluation of NDCs. The seminar will also focus on the ethics of climate-sensitive infectious diseases and the ethical challenges associated with solar geoengineering.

The seminar will have an outstanding participation of internationally renowned experts. It will take place in virtual and face-to-face modality at the Gioja Institute of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The seminar will be conducted in Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation for speakers presenting in English.

This seminar was developed in collaboration with the Bioethics Program of FLACSO, directed by Dr. Florencia Luna. Her research team coordinates a panel on solar geoengineering.

The main advances of the research projects of the research team led by Dr. Romina Rekers will be presented:

  1. CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND HEALTH STRATEGIES IN SOUTH AMERICA
  2. WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN CLIMATE-SENSITIVE INFECTIOUS DISEASE POLICY IN SOUTH AMERICA
  3. A POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

SEMINAR PROGRAMME (Buenos Aires time GMT-3)

February 4th

10:00- 12:00 AM: Opening: Bioethics at the Intersection of Climate Change and Health.

  • Romina Rekers (University of Graz, Austria).
  • Florencia Luna (Director of the Bioethics Program FLACSO, Argentina).
  • Maria Merritt (GLIDE, Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative; Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins, US).
  • Lucas Rekers (President of Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Argentina).

01:00- 03:00 PM: Health on the Climate Agenda: Its Impact on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

  • Elena Villalobos Prats (Head of Capacity Development and Country Support, Climate Change and Health - WHO)
  • Stella Hartinger (Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change LATAM, UK).
  • Francisco Chesini (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Climate and Health Studies, Argentina).
  • Damian Markov (Climate Medicine Program, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, US).

03:30- 04:30 PM: Incorporating a Human Rights Perspective into Climate and Health Planning.

  • Countries' obligation to adapt to climate change to protect their residents' human right to health: María Victoria Gerbaldo (Assistant Researcher Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Argentina).

05:00- 06:30 PM: Enablers of Justice in National Climate Policies for the Health Sector 

  • Recognitional Justice: Cintia Rodríguez Garat (Assistant Researcher Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Argentina).
  • Distributive Justice: Carlos Yabar (Assistant Researcher Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Argentina, Perú).
  • Procedural Justice: Lucas Rekers (Assistant Researcher Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Argentina, Argentina).

Chair: Romina Rekers (University of Graz, Austria).

07:00- 08:00 PM: A method for Co-producing Ethical Principles.

  • Transdisciplinary Reflective Equilibrium: Marcia Videla Ayala (Assistant Researcher Climate Ethics and Development Foundation, Paraguay).

February 5th

10:00 - 12:00 AM: Solar Geoengineering: North-South Dialogues on Ethical-Political and Governance Issues 

  • Inés Camilloni (University of Buenos Aires - Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group I for the 7th assessment cycle).
  • Tyler Felgenhauer (Modeling Environmental Risks and Decisions Group MERDG - University of Duke, US). 
  • Harald Stelzer (Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz - University of Graz, Austria). 
  • Francisco Estrada (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change - National Autonomous University of Mexico).

Chair: María Inés Carabajal (FLACSO; CONICET - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina).

More information and registration: https://forms.gle/TtoNe88aVE62o3NZ6.

For questions contact: contacto@eticaclimatica.org.ar