The climate crisis is the preeminent challenge of our time and the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to build back a better world. The webinar will highlight the relationship between population growth, ageing societies and climate change. Older people from different regions and a panel of experts will share their views on how older people can play an active role in saving our planet.

Opening remarks from Patricia Espinoza, Executive Secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Moderator: Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary, ESCAP

Thought piece: Karl Pillemer, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University

Panellists:
• Xiao Caiwei, President, China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA)
• Professor Jyoti Parikh Ph D, FNASc, Executive Director, Integrated Research and Action for Development IRADe / Member, former Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Climate Change
• Eduardo Klien, Regional Director for Asia Pacific, HelpAge International
• Mozaharul Alam, Regional Coordinator, Climate Change Programme Asia and the Pacific Office, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Community expert inputs:
• Quyen Tran, Older People Association Expert, HelpAge International
• Prakash Tyagi, Executive Director of GRAVIS, India

Here are the links to the video: 

Video 1: Setting the scene: where are we with regards to climate crisis and needed intergenerational global action by Patricia Espinoza, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC
Video 2: Climate change through the eyes of older people in the Philippines
Video 3: Vision casting on older people and intergenerational action on climate change, Karl Andrew Pillemer, Professor of Human Development
Video 4: Older people and action to combat climate change, a story from the Thar desert, Rajasthan, India
Video 5: Older people, Climate change and community action,  Quyen Tran

The webinar recording is available here. 

In addition, you can read a paper on older people and climate action here.