ICS Estudos e Relatórios Nº1 / 2019

ICS E S T U D O S e R E L A T Ó R I O S 2019 of partnerships, the enhancement of scientific evidence as well as health systems. In its recent endorsement for the Work Plan to enter in function for 2014-2019, WHO emphasised a particular implementation focus on promoting health equity (WHO, 2015). 3. Implementing Systems Science for Urban Health and Well- being under Climate Change Part 1: The Nexus Challenge: Climate Change, Health and Sustainability Prof. Filipe Duarte Santos , Senior Climate Change Scientist and President of the Portuguese National Council of Environment and Sustainable Development, host: “One of the main foci of our proposed research could be the increasing fragmentation and inequality driven by mainstream neoclassical economics.” Present and future climate change impacts and adaptation at the global level and in particular, on human health, is a complex field for research and action that benefits from a systems approach. Urban health in this context is a more restricted but increasingly relevant field since the urban area population is expected to reach 68% of the total population in 2050 (UNDESA, 2018). The understatement of the climate change risks by a scrupulous and professional climate change research community unaccustomed to deal with existential risks has been recently emphasized (Spratt, 2018). In part, this message has contributed to the fact that climate policymaking has been for years a flagrant violation of reality. The likelihood of complying with the 2º C of the Paris agreement is close to zero. However, the IPCC is diligently publishing a report emphasizing that it still is possible to remain below 1.5º C. To achieve the 2º C goal the present CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry, of about 35 GTCO2 in 2017, have to be reduced in the next 33 years by 72% to 9.7GtCO2. Still, they have increased by nearly 100% in the last 33 years (Le Quéré, 2018). Maybe urban health and wellbeing under climate change could be an effective vehicle to convey the urgency of action both in terms of mitigation and adaptation.