Glasgow: If you think the covid pandemic is annoying and turning off, climate change will be much worse.
Thus said many panelists on Tuesday at the UN climate talks in Glasgow, warned about increasing climate-related health threats such as disease, heatstroke, and air pollution.
But they also call a health system in rich countries as part of a problem, with the health care sector responsible for up to 5% of global carbon emissions.
“We need to recognize the role of the health system as an emitter,” said Rachel Levine, US Assistant Secretary of Health.
“We cannot retreat and only tell others what they have to do to protect our patients.” The main source of emissions from the health care sector includes the manufacture and transportation of medical goods, as well as the construction and operation of hospitals and clinics.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced dozens of governments have committed to reducing emissions in their health system or for complete transition to zero-zero.
The speaker also asks the state to get ready for more diseases and victims related to the climate.
Already, climate change worsens food and water security, while Heatly Heatbir and floods are community testing throughout the world.
The medical system is often detained if it is not damaged by this same type of event.
Fiji UN Ambassador Satayendra Prasad describes the challenges of maintaining open medical facilities in the midst of superstorms and floods that roast the Pacific Island nation.
“It’s tragic enough when your doctor and nurse themselves are evacuated, when they have to provide frontline service,” he said.
Fiji also saw more water diseases in the flood after the storm, he said.
Vulnerable countries need money to move medical facilities to a higher place and to train health professionals to deal with health problems related to climate, he said.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now the WHO Ambassador about global health finance, calls for rich countries to keep their promises to provide $ 100 billion per year in climate financing for poorer nations.
The money, he said, could be used to improve health throughout the world.
The doctor has said the best way to prevent the health hazard of the public rotation is to meet the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level.
Run Editorial in 233 Health Journals urged the same thing, by saying that it passes the 1.5c threshold border “disaster losses for impossible health”.
“Even though Covid has become a deadly disease, climate change will take more lives in the next 50 to 100 years than anything that will be done by [Coronavirus] disease,” Brown said.
“We need to keep 1.5 degrees alive to keep millions of people stay alive.”
Climate-related health risks increase, COP26 panelists warn
