Glasgow: If you think covid The pandemic was disruptive and deadly, climate change would be so bad.
So said a group of panelists at the UN climate talks in Glasgow on Tuesday, warning about increasing climate-linked health threats such as disease, heatstroke and air pollution.
But he also called out health systems in rich countries as part of the problem, with the health sector responsible for up to 5% of global carbon emissions.
“We need to recognize the role of health systems as emitters,” said Rachel Levine, US Assistant Secretary of Health. “We can’t hold back and just tell others what they should do to protect our patients.”
The main sources of emissions from the healthcare sector include the manufacturing and transportation of medical goods, as well as the construction and operation of hospitals and clinics.
on Tuesday, World Health Organization (WHO) announced that dozens of governments have committed to reducing emissions in their health systems or transitioning to zero altogether.
The speakers also called on countries to be prepared for climate-related diseases and casualties.
Already, climate change is worsening food and water security, while deadly heatwaves and floods are testing communities around the world.
Medical systems are often being strained if not damaged by these types of events.
Fiji’s United Nations Ambassador Satyendra Prasad Described the challenge of keeping medical facilities open in the midst of storms and floods pacific island Nation.
“It is very sad when your doctors and nurses are being evacuated themselves, when they should be providing frontline services,” he said.
He said that more water-borne diseases are also being seen in Fiji in the floods that followed the storm.
He said vulnerable countries need funds to upgrade medical facilities and train health professionals to deal with climate-related health issues.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon brown, now WHO’s ambassador on global health finance, called on rich countries to keep their promise to provide $100 billion a year in climate financing for poor countries. He said that money could be used to promote healthcare around the world.
Doctors say the best way to curb rising public health threats is to meet 2015 Paris Agreement Aim to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
An editorial run in 233 health journals urging the same said that exceeding the 1.5C limit “causes catastrophic damage to health that would be impossible to reverse”.
“Although Covid has been a deadly disease, climate change will kill more people in the next 50 to 100 years than anything else.” [the coronavirus] The disease will do,” Brown said. “To keep millions of people alive, we need to keep 1.5 degrees alive.”
So said a group of panelists at the UN climate talks in Glasgow on Tuesday, warning about increasing climate-linked health threats such as disease, heatstroke and air pollution.
But he also called out health systems in rich countries as part of the problem, with the health sector responsible for up to 5% of global carbon emissions.
“We need to recognize the role of health systems as emitters,” said Rachel Levine, US Assistant Secretary of Health. “We can’t hold back and just tell others what they should do to protect our patients.”
The main sources of emissions from the healthcare sector include the manufacturing and transportation of medical goods, as well as the construction and operation of hospitals and clinics.
on Tuesday, World Health Organization (WHO) announced that dozens of governments have committed to reducing emissions in their health systems or transitioning to zero altogether.
The speakers also called on countries to be prepared for climate-related diseases and casualties.
Already, climate change is worsening food and water security, while deadly heatwaves and floods are testing communities around the world.
Medical systems are often being strained if not damaged by these types of events.
Fiji’s United Nations Ambassador Satyendra Prasad Described the challenge of keeping medical facilities open in the midst of storms and floods pacific island Nation.
“It is very sad when your doctors and nurses are being evacuated themselves, when they should be providing frontline services,” he said.
He said that more water-borne diseases are also being seen in Fiji in the floods that followed the storm.
He said vulnerable countries need funds to upgrade medical facilities and train health professionals to deal with climate-related health issues.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon brown, now WHO’s ambassador on global health finance, called on rich countries to keep their promise to provide $100 billion a year in climate financing for poor countries. He said that money could be used to promote healthcare around the world.
Doctors say the best way to curb rising public health threats is to meet 2015 Paris Agreement Aim to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
An editorial run in 233 health journals urging the same said that exceeding the 1.5C limit “causes catastrophic damage to health that would be impossible to reverse”.
“Although Covid has been a deadly disease, climate change will kill more people in the next 50 to 100 years than anything else.” [the coronavirus] The disease will do,” Brown said. “To keep millions of people alive, we need to keep 1.5 degrees alive.”
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