COP 27 Side Event: Tobacco and environmental impacts

Tobacco consumption as an environmental sustainability issue: environmental impact of tobacco products and proposed solutions that complement the solution for its negative health effects

Date: 17 November 2022
Time: 12h00 GMT, 2pm in Egypt
Location: Turkiye Pavilion

The world’s attention is being focused on Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt where the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is taking place from 6 to 18 November 2022. This high-level meeting provides an opportunity for the 198 Parties to the convention to reflect on and take actions to reduce global warming and its disastrous consequences.
On the sidelines of this global gathering, the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) in collaboration with the Turkish Green Crescent Society and the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) will participate in a side event entitled “Tobacco consumption as an environmental sustainability issue: environmental impact of tobacco products and proposed solutions that complement the solution for its negative health effects”.

Panelists

• Yasin Erol, Deputy Secretary General, Turkish Green Crescent Society (TGCS)

Impact of Smoking on Air Quality: Smoke-free Spaces and its Enforcement Measurement Mechanisms such as the Air Quality Monitoring (AQM)

• Leonce Dieudonne Sessou, Executive Secretary, African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA)

Impact of tobacco cultivation on soil in terms of the deforestation, biodiversity loss and food insecurity it causes

• Kelvin Khow Chuan Heng, Programme Manager, Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)

Waste of Tobacco Products and Proposed solutions, Tobacco Taxation from a Health and Environmental Sector Collaboration Point-of -View.

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