Conference Programme

Objective

Understand why narrative, emotion, identity, and values shape public responses to climate, fossil fuels, health, and transition debates. Identify the basic ingredients of a compelling public story: values, conflict, stakes, human experience, responsibility, and possibility. Translate scientific evidence into stories that move hearts and minds without losing accuracy. Craft a short story that connects their own work, community, or experience to a wider call for climate and health action. Build confidence in using personal, community, and public health narratives as tools for change.

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Faith institutions hold reach, trust, and moral authority at a scale the planetary health movement urgently needs — more than 80% of the world's population identifies with a religious tradition. But commitment rarely becomes delivery. In the preceding plenary, participants voted as board members of a faith institution on a real sustainability proposal — and approved it. This workshop asks the harder question: how does that institution deliver within 12 months? Working in six teams across buildings, events, finance, community norms, youth, and storytelling, participants use the Faith-Based Toolkit for Planetary Health — its Six Commitments, Quick Institutional Audit, and 90-Day Action Pathway — to design real delivery plans and stress-test them for spread: measurable, visible, replicable, scalable. Participants leave with a completed 90-Day Action Pathway for their own institution and shape Toolkit Version 2. One institution changing visibly, in ways others can copy, is how positive tipping points begin.

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Clean air is one of the world's most powerful positive tipping points for climate and health. This workshop will explore how accelerating clean air action can unlock rapid, reinforcing benefits for people and the planet, demonstrating that some of the greatest gains from climate action come through cleaner air and healthier populations. Governments have committed to halving the health impacts of human-made air pollution by 2040 through the WHO Global Action Plan on Air

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There are a multitude of political and financial initiatives that aim to tackle tropical deforestation, yet deforestation continues. What do we need to do differently to achieve a positive tipping point in tropical forests? We pose 2 questions for discussion at the workshop: What works to halt deforestation? - What interventions or mixes of interventions have been effective in different regions and contexts to halt deforestation on active deforestation fronts? What are the conditions needed for interventions to be successful? What can we learn about commonalities and contextual differences? How can successful interventions achieve permanence, and how could they scale? - What has affected the longevity of success in past interventions? Where interventions have ceased to be effective after some time, what led to the change in conditions? How can we create institutional or other path dependencies that lock in positive outcomes? What conditions can enable successful initiatives to scale

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How can people and communities around the world help to shape decisions on how we respond to Earth System Tipping Points risks? This action workshop explores the role of the Global Citizens’ Assembly in governing Earth System Tipping Points (focus coral reefs and AMOC), where sudden and potentially irreversible changes can have far-reaching consequences. The governance challenges are marked by uncertainty, interconnected impacts, and growing concerns about the legitimacy and effectiveness of existing governance approaches. Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and innovators, the workshop will examine how the Global Citizens’ Assembly can support more inclusive, anticipatory, and deliberative forms of Earth System Governance. Through lightning talks, facilitated breakout groups, and collective discussion, participants will co-design a participatory governance roadmap and develop practical plans for citizen deliberation on tipping point governance. The outcomes will inform two Global Citizens’ Assembly pilots that will contribute to the Global Tipping Points Report 2027.

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As climate and ecological tipping points increasingly translate into health crises, decision-makers need practical tools to anticipate, assess, and respond to cascading risks across sectors. This Action Workshop equips participants to bridge the gap between scientific evidence and real-world action through a fast-paced, high-stakes simulation. Working in interdisciplinary teams, participants will conduct a “Flash Health Impact Assessment” to rapidly identify links between environmental change, health determinants and health outcomes, and develop integrated response strategies spanning energy, food, water, transport, and other critical systems. Participants will gain practical experience in applying systems thinking to complex challenges, translating scientific evidence into actionable recommendations and collaborating across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries. The workshop provides an opportunity to strengthen professional networks while demonstrating how Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can support timely, evidence-informed decisions that enhance resilience and protect population health in an era of accelerating planetary change.

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Climate and sustainability considerations are increasingly embedded in capital allocation decisions, yet translating them into robust, comparable metrics remains a challenge. Scientific knowledge needs to be translated into actionable indicators and insights for finance professionals and decision-makers in the public and private sectors, to bring clarity on risks and opportunities related to planetary boundaries and to trigger action. This is exactly the purpose of the Systemic Capital Allocation Framework (SCAF). SCAF aims at comparing solutions by articulating: 1) revenues and costs, 2) quantification of climate risks, and 3) societal impact costs, the latter being an advanced indicator of business risk in finance models. In this action workshop, we invite attendees to explore a concrete example of SCAF applied to a transition planning project in the state of Sabah (Malaysia), and to discuss with the audience how the approach can be replicated in different decision-making contexts to accelerate the Shift.

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While governance historically prioritized societal wellbeing, modern measurement limitations elevated GDP, income, and profit as default proxies. Consequently, financial optimization has systematically extracted the foundational capitals of genuine wellbeing: ecological wealth, social cohesion, human capability, and institutional integrity. This workshop challenges that paradigm by shifting governance from financial capital to holistic wellbeing. Utilizing a tripartite lens—planetary health, commercial determinants of health, and wellbeing economics—the session unfolds in two phases: Theoretical Foundations: Unpacking historical frameworks of wellbeing while dissecting how current "consumptogenic" systems drive structural ill-health and ecological overshoot. Actionable Tipping Points: Mobilizing health, industry, and governance stakeholders in breakout groups. Drawing on lessons from campaigns against tobacco, ultra-processed foods, and fossil fuels, participants will crowdsource high-leverage interventions mapped across micro, meso, and macro scales over 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year horizons.