A woman in Africa’s Sahel region shows how her maize corn ears have dried up in a drought, which are occuring with greater frequency in the world’s most food insecure regions as a result of climate change.
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A sweeping World Health Organization report on Climate and Health, published just ahead of a critical Glasgow climate conference (COP 26) that begins 31 October, has declared that “the burning of fossil fuels is killing us” – the bluntest denunciation to date by the global health agency of societies’ fossil fuel addiction.
“Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity,” adds the report, whose publication was accompanied by an open appeal to governments, signed by some 300 health organizations representing 45 million health workers worldwide – two-thirds of the global health workforce.
The “COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health” provides little in the way of brand-new data on a much-discussed issue. But it is the boldest yet of WHO’s recent statements on increasingly alarming trends – leading to more extreme heat episodes, fires, floods, and droughts, and air pollution – which in turn create a cascade of health effects.
“There are 45 million plus health care professionals who are witnesses to the health emergency that is unfolding in plain sight,” said Howard Catton, CEO of the International Council of Nurses.
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