Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe
Time
12.30-2pm (BST)
About
Join us for a webinar that will highlight the health challenges facing urban informal workers from climate change and the responses that can address them.
Across many African and Asian cities, the informal economy provides most livelihoods as well as key goods and services that enable these urban areas to function and to thrive.
Despite their importance, very little attention has been paid to how climate change is affecting and will affect the livelihoods, health and wellbeing of low-income urban informal workers. Still fewer efforts have explored climate-related risks in light of longstanding threats facing informal workers, such as occupational health hazards and low-quality living environments.
This webinar on Wednesday, 8 June will include presentations from research teams in India and Zimbabwe, as well as commentary and analysis from global experts.
We will hear from project partners, the Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), India, the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA), Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organising and IIED.
A question-and answer session will follow the discussion.