Heading to COY21 or COP31? Here's where to find the CAHA team across both conferences.

CAHA team members will be speaking at events throughout both conferences, centring Pacific priorities and youth voices in climate action and negotiations, and exploring the links between climate, health, equity and justice.

If you're attending either conference, check out our schedule below and come along to a session. We'd love to see you there!

Friday 6 November

Capacity Building Workshop: Advocating for Health in COP31 Negotiations

• Time: 10:30-11:30AM
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA), Bianca Lau-Goodchild (CAHA)
• Location: COY21
• Organisers: Climate and Health Alliance, YOUNGO Health Working Group, WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate and Health, University of Melbourne
  
  

Saturday 7 November

A Global Youth Action Framework for Climate Change and Health

• Time: 11:30-13:15
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA), Bianca Lau-Goodchild (CAHA), Dr Sıla Gürbüz
• Location: COY21
• Organisers: Climate and Health Alliance, YOUNGO Health Working Group, WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate and Health
  

Arts and Creativity for Coping with Climate Change

• Time: 12:30-13:15
• Speaker: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA)
• Location: COY21
• Organisers: Climate and Health Alliance, Orygen, WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate and Health

COY21 Closing Plenary & Global Youth Statement Handover

• Time: 14:00-16:00 
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (COY21 Co-Host Coalition Lead - Australia), Sally Higgins (COP31 PYCC), Marcele Oliveira (COP30 PYCC), Kate Thwaites (TBC), 
• Location: COY21
• Organisers: YOUNGO, Climate and Health Alliance, ECOMIND, Orygen, Climate CATCH Lab, Climate Writers, Australian Youth For International Climate Engagement, Oceania Youth Negotiations Network
  
  

Monday 9 November

A Youth-Led Policy Roadmap for Healthy Minds and a Healthy Planet

What do healthy minds have to do with a healthy planet? Future Minds is a youth-led policy roadmap exploring how mental health and wellbeing can strengthen climate action and help create a future in which people and planet thrive together.

• Time: 10:00-10:45
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA), Georgia Monaghan, Hasini Gunasiri, Yehansa Dahanyake, Isabelle Shaw, Isharah Hewavitharana
• Location: Children & Youth Pavilion
• Organisers: Future Minds (Climate Cares, Orygen, Climate and Health Alliance, ECOMIND, Black Dog Institute, Psychology for a Safe Climate, Doctors for Environment Australia, RMIT, Charles Sturt University, University of Sydney Matilda Centre, University of Melbourne)
  
  

Accelerating Climate-Resilient Health Systems: Implementing Solutions and Reporting on Results of adaptation and mitigation actions in the sector

This 60-minute showcase highlights concrete progress, measurable outcomes, and practical solutions for accelerating climate-resilient healthcare, serving as a status check on key health sector climate initiatives. Convening national health ministries, multilateral organizations, private health systems, civil society, funders, and technical partners, the event demonstrates how joint commitments under the Belém Health Action Plan (BHAP), the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH), and Health Care Without Harm’s Health Care Climate Challenge and Race to Zero for Healthcare —supported by the new Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH+) framework—are driving actionable change. These efforts are actively monitored and reported in alignment with COP30 Key Objective 16 (Promoting Resilient Health Systems) and COP31 Priority: Dynamic and Resilient Health Systems.

• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Speaker: Michelle Isles (panelist)
• Location: Special Room 3 (Amphitheater)
• Organisers: Health Care Without Harm, Race to Zero and Health Care Climate Challenge
  
  

Wednesday 11 November

The Health Agenda for COP31: The Türkiye–Australia and Pacific Experience

• Time: 9:00-10.00
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA; Co-Moderator), Dr Sıla Gürbüz (Co-Moderator), Prof. Zoe Wainer, Dr Aziz Alper Biten, Karen Ngamata, Prof Dr Emine Didem Evci Kiraz 
• Location: Health Pavillion
• Organisers: YOUNGO Health Working Group, Australian Centre for Disease Control, Turkish Ministry of Health, EU and Foreign Affairs
  
  

Mental Health in Climate Policy: Turning Evidence into Action

• Time: 14:00-15:00
• Speaker: Litiana Lagibalavu (panelist)
• Location: Health Pavillion
• Organisers: Alliance For Future Generations Fiji

TUKUNI - Alliance For Future Generations Fiji's Pasifika Poetry and Storytelling Session

• Time: 17:00-17:45
• Speaker: Litiana Lagibalavu
• Location: Children & Youth Pavilion, The Wellbeing Corner
• Organisers: Alliance For Future Generations Fiji
  
  

Thursday 12 November 

Partnership, Not Just Participation: Meaningful Inclusion of Frontline Communities in Climate Research

• 14:00-15:30
• Speaker: Sunny Nguyen
• Location: Global Universities Alliance on Climate (GUAC) Pavilion
• Organisers: Oxford University
  
  

Thursday 12 November

Breathing With Nature, As Nature - Alliance For Future Generations Fiji's Pasifika Poetry and Storytelling Session

• Time: 17:00-17:45
• Speaker: Litiana Lagibalavu
• Location: Children & Youth Pavilion, The Wellbeing Corner
• Organisers: Alliance For Future Generations Fiji
  
  

Saturday 14 November

Reforming Global Governance: Inclusive Multilateralism and the Role of Children and Youth

This panel, co-organized by the Spanish Youth Council (CJE) and UNICEF, examines the urgent need to reform global governance through the lens of inclusive multilateralism, with a particular focus on youth as leaders of this transformation. As trust in international institutions erodes and global challenges intensify, the session asks: What would a truly inclusive multilateral system look like? And how can young people move from being consulted to being decision-makers? Drawing on the Pact for the Future, the UN Secretary-General's vision of networked multilateralism, and concrete experiences from youth advisory bodies and intergenerational governance models, the discussion explores pathways to democratise global governance and embed youth participation as a structural principle, not a symbolic gesture.

• Time: 17:30-18:30
• Speakers: Bianca Lau-Goodchild (CAHA), Ángela Cordones -  International Affairs Team, Spanish Youth Council, Bea - UNICEF Spain's Childhood and Adolescence Advisory Group, Irene Pérez - SEO BirdLife Spain, Aida Bustos, Spain's Generación Clima COP31, Seruni Salsabila, UNIDO Youth Advisory Group
• Location: Spanish Pavilion

Make the Invisible Visible: The Role of Children and Youth Environmental actors

Beneath the language of economic growth, industrial progress and development lies stories that rarely receive the attention they deserve: landscapes scarred by extraction, ecosystems under pressure, communities bearing disproportionate environmental costs and children inheriting consequences they had no part in creating.

Extraction costs rarely appear on an invoice. They surface later, in degraded soil, displaced communities, and children inheriting a ledger they never signed. This event exists to make that invisible ledger visible, and to insist that the generation most affected by it, children and youth, be recognized not as future stakeholders waiting for their turn, but as environmental actors acting now. 

• Time: TBC
• Speaker: Sunny Nguyen
• Location: Uganda Pavilion
• Organisers: ECO-HOPE Initiative

The Health and Economic Benefits of a Just and Equitable Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

• Time: 18:30–20:00
• Speaker: Michelle Isles
• Location: Side Event Room Purple
• Organisers: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Climate and Health Alliance, Global Climate and Health Alliance, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations and International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
  
  

Tuesday 17 November

The Human Side of Loss and Damage – Advancing Action when Adaptation is Not Enough

Bringing together frontline communities, youth, governments, health practitioners and researchers, this session explores practical responses to non-economic loss and damage (NELD), including physical and mental health, psychosocial wellbeing, culture, identity and connection to place.

• Time: 16:45-18:15
• Speaker: Litiana Lagibalavu
• Location: UNFCCC pavilion, Side Event Room 2 – DALYAN
• Organisers:The Pacific Community, The University of Pennsylvania, Médecins Sans Frontières
  
  

Wednesday 18 November

Expressing Climate Change through Action, Connection and Creativity

• Time: 11.00-12.30

• Speaker: Sunny Nguyen

• Location: Children & Youth Pavilion, The Wellbeing Corner

• Organisers: Orygen, University of Melbourne

From Survival to Flourishing: Mental Health, Wellbeing & Emotional Resilience in a Climate Crisis

An interactive dialogue connecting experts working across health, community, environment and research to explore how climate change is impacting mental health and wellbeing and how we can help communities adapt, build resilience and flourish in the climate crisis. 

• Time: 15:30–16:30
• Speakers: Sunny Nguyen (CAHA), Dr Cybele Dey, A/Prof. Caroline Gao, Dr Emma Lawrance, Dr Alessandro Massazza, Dr Burcin Ikiz, Isabelle Shaw
• Location: Health Pavilion
• Organisers: Climate Cares, Orygen, Climate and Health Alliance, ECOMIND, Black Dog Institute, Psychology for a Safe Climate, Doctors for Environment Australia, RMIT, University of New England, University of Sydney Matilda Centre, University of Melbourne, Be the Future, ICLEI, Connecting Climate Minds (University of Oxford), Stanford University, EcoNeuro, Neuro Climate Working Group