The Ecumenical Patriarchate is organizing the Halki Summit IV on “COVID-19 and Climate Change: Living with and Learning from a Pandemic.“
Halki Summit IV sessions will be held as three Zoom webinars on January 26–28, 2021 from 8:00–9:30 pm EST each day.
“The pandemic of Covid-19 has permanently affected our planet and altered our lives. The world has wrestled to survive and learned to live with the coronavirus. But what are the lessons that we have learned? What has been the impact on nature and the environment? What have been the implications for healthcare? And what have we understood about the relevance and importance of science?” as mentioned in the official website of the Halki Summit.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will open the Halki Summit. Some of the speakers: the economics professor, Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University in New York, the ecologist and theologian, Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker from Yale University, and the author and activist, Bill McKibben from Middlebury College.
The first two speakers have taken part in the international symposia of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, while the latter in the first Halki Summit.
Metropolitan of Ioannis of Pergamos, pioneer of Theology of Ecology, will also attend the Halki Summit.
Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Ioannis Chrysaugis, who is an expert in ecology issues, will be the coordinator.
The Summit will be attended by distinguished scientists from around the world. Among them is Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, an internal medicine physician, specializing in infectious diseases and is currently in charge of Greece’s management of the Covid-19 crisis.
Registration is required to attend the online meeting.
For more information about the program and registration, one can visit the official website by clicking here.