Our comments focus on expanding the discussion to include food systems beyond the current focus on cities, broadening the perspective on urban environmental health, reassessing key energy sources within the climate-health nexus, and centering considerations on health equity across the report, with energy poverty as a key area for action.
The world’s population is on track to reaching 10 billion by 2050, just as the planetary systems that sustain life on Earth are being pushed to their limits — and with them, our ability to provide food and water and to prevent large-scale displacements, rippling economic shocks and conflict.
Earlier this year, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan stood up at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin and told ministers, fossil fuels are a “gift from the gods.” Having oil and gas deposits is “not our fault” he went on, laying out further plans to increase natural gas production by more than a third.
Learn more about extreme heat and its impact on health systems.
International law and policy can help strengthen protections for sexual and reproductive health and rights and reduce harms to fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and maternal health caused by climate change and environmental degradation.
Climate change and nature loss are twin crises that are damaging planetary and public health. Extreme temperatures and weather events, pollution and food insecurity are already claiming millions of lives each year and this is set to increase in years to come.
Two allied innovation sectors have to learn and apply from the planet’s ills
Africa is already being heavily affected by climate change. Between 1991 and 2023, the African continent warmed at a rate of 0.3 degrees C per decade, a rate slightly faster than the global average. This has brought more frequent and severe weather extremes.
Climate change is the most significant challenge to global health, and the integration of climate information into routine decision-making in the health sector is critical.
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