Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026
Place: Bonn, Germany
Time: 10:30-11:45
Room: Kaminzimmer
Duration: 1h 30 min
Event Overview and Objectives
This parallel side event at SB64 highlights the importance of climate-related health research and the behavioral and communication interventions needed to translate this knowledge into action.
Notably, a growing body of evidence demonstrates that climate change affects reproductive health outcomes. Still, actual policy frameworks and public discourse are needed to continue representing them and to provide research-based behavior interventions. In this context, the event also highlights the contributions of the Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD).
In particular, its research on “Women’s Role in Transformational Adaptation in Kurigram” underscores how locally grounded, gender-responsive knowledge can inform climate resilience strategies.
Institutionalizing the Climate Arts Research Group
The event will introduce and advance the Climate Arts Research Group. It aims to institutionalize collaboration between researchers, artists, and policy actors to support the integration of scientific evidence, participatory methods, and communication strategies within UNFCCC processes.
Consequently, it will contribute to ongoing SB64 processes, such as the “18th Research Dialogue,” the “Dialogue on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE),” and the “LCIPP Annual Dialogue on Indigenous and local knowledge systems,” by promoting transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge production and dissemination.
Addressing Reproductive Health in Climate-Vulnerable Areas
Evidence from climate-vulnerable coastal areas shows a clear intersection between environmental stressors such as salinity intrusion, freshwater scarcity, and limited healthcare access and adverse reproductive health outcomes, including menstrual irregularities, increased prevalence of thalassemia, and low birth weight.
These impacts disproportionately affect women and adolescent girls, underscoring the need not only for further research but for stronger recognition, integration, and communication of existing knowledge within climate policy and practice.
Integrating Community-Based Communication and Participatory Research
Positioned within ongoing SB64 processes, this event contributes to adaptation discussions by emphasizing the importance of integrating health into climate response strategies. Hence, a participatory research approach will be presented to strengthen the scientific evidence base, drawing from CPRD’s work in Kurigram to illustrate how community-driven evidence can fill data gaps.
Furthermore, collaboration with Green and Better World Cameroon demonstrates how locally embedded communication strategies can enhance awareness, trust, and behavioral change at the community level.
The Role of Climate Arts in Planetary Transformation
Climate arts research, aligned with the emerging X-ART Planetary Arts Movement, is introduced as a complementary approach that translates scientific data into accessible, emotionally resonant, and culturally grounded forms. Thus, the initiative emphasizes the role of artists, scientists, and creatives as catalysts for planetary transformation, ecological awareness, and collective resilience.
Advancing Gender and Capacity-Building Agendas
By foregrounding reproductive health as a key dimension of gendered climate impacts, the event reinforces the need to integrate existing evidence into more responsive and equitable policy frameworks and to strengthen communication strategies that enable broader societal engagement.
Program
| Time | Discussion and speakers |
| Center for Participatory Research and Development | |
| 10:30-10:35 | Opening remarks (TBD) |
| 10:35-11:15 | Panel discussion. Dr. Jeni Miller, EDm Global Climate & Health Alliance, Dr. Shouro Dasgupta, Environmental Economist, CMCC, Charles Kabiswa, Executive Director, Regenerative Africa, Farah Anzum, Bangladesh Lead, GSCC |
| Planetary Communities and Arts Group | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Alena Maslova, X-Art Planetary Arts Movement, Dobrosphera Kind Media. Institutionalizing Climate Art Research. Climate Arts Research Group with UNFCCC Steering Committee Discussion. |
| 11:25-11:40 | Panel discussion. Sandra Prüfer, X-Art Planetary Arts Movement, ArtVentures Club. TBD Ambe Nwga Field Implementation and Lessons from Cameroon Natalia Sonina. Embodied Art, Women’s Health Practices, and Global Engagement. |
| 11:40-11:45 | Climate Arts Research Group with UNFCCC Steering Committee — Inviting Stakeholders and Supporters. Closing remarks. |
