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Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO) Climate change is already impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses and food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, and mental health issues Furthermore, climate change is undermining many of the social determinants
Climate Change Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries And we intend to go further in helping countries reduce poverty and rise to the challenges of climate change
Global health community calls for urgent action on climate and health . . . Climate change is not a distant threat; it is a present danger affecting our health on multiple fronts The health community asserts that climate change is already affecting our health, contributing to the spread of infectious diseases and vector-borne illnesses
Social Dimensions of Climate Change - World Bank Group Social Dimensions of Climate Change As extreme weather and disasters continue to worsen and increase, millions of poor people face severe challenges in terms of job losses, health effects, food insecurity, water stress, migration and forced displacement, loss of home, shelter, and community ties, and other related risks
Health and Climate Change - World Bank Group The links between climate change, poverty and health are clear The climate crisis is a health-risk multiplier Extreme weather events are devastating health globally By 2030, climate's negative health effects could drive at least 44 million people into extreme poverty
Climate change and health - World Health Organization (WHO) The leading climate-related causes of death, illness and suffering result from exposure to increasingly frequent and more intense extreme weather events, including heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storm surges, as well as slow-onset events, such as droughts
Climate Change and Health - World Health Organization (WHO) Unit Head, Climate change and health Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is the Head of the climate change and health unit at WHO Headquarters He has worked on the issue for over 20 years, playing key roles in the first quantitative estimates of global health impacts of climate change, resolutions of the World Health Assembly, WHO global conferences, and the expansion of WHO’s climate change and
Countering the climate crisis in Kiribati - World Health Organization (WHO) Kiribati, home to around 120,000 people, lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, north of New Zealand and south-west of Hawaii Of its 33 far flung islands, none are more than four metres above sea level at their highest point This makes it one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change
Climate Change and Health - World Health Organization (WHO) WHO has been working on climate change and health for over 25 years - advocating, collecting evidence and providing comprehensive support to countries in dealing with health effects of climate change