WHO report: Climate change is harming human health, funds still lag behind

World Health Organisation's new report released on December 3 said that climate change is responsible for most ill-effects on human health yet funding to tackle crisis is lacking behind. United Nations published its report a day after climate summit began in Mrid in order to urge world leers to prioritize climate emergency and meet ambitious targets to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases which are responsible for increasing earth's temperature. extreme wear conditions are responsible for people suffering from heat stress, and mosquito-borne diseases including malaria. 

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Climate change is causing health risks

report draws data from nearly 101 countries and only 38 per cent of m actually have finances to even partially implement strategies of national health and climate change while less than 10 per cent countries are channelling ir resources to implement m completely. Nearly 48 per cent of countries have conducted an assessment registering public health risks related to environmental emergency. WHO quoted several vector-borne diseases such as cholera, dengue, or malaria. However, report findings have failed to influence allocation of human and financial resources required to battle same. 

According to WHO report published on ir website, “Over 75% reported a lack of information on opportunities to access climate finance, over 60% a lack of connection of health actors to climate finance processes, and over 50% a lack of capacity to prepare proposals”. 

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Climate summit in Mrid 

discussions began on tremendous change in climate due to a constant increase in temperatures in past few years which also led to massive melting of ice caps in Arctic region, followed by wildfires ranging from Amazonian rainforests to Australian forests. '' world is witnessing devastating storms and hurricanes across several tropical regions leing to severe consequences,'' Guterres said. “Do we really want to be remembered as generation that buried its he in sand, that fiddled while planet burned?” he questioned.

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