Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health
AFP, Paris
Publish: Saturday, 09 November, 2024 09:44
Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn.
The latest round of UN climate talks begin next week during what is expected to be the hottest year in recorded history -- and in the shadow of climate sceptic Donald Trump's re-election as US president.
The COP29 negotiations will be held in Azerbaijan as the world continues to emit increasing levels of planet-heating fossil fuels, even as many nations have been lashed by devastating floods, droughts, heatwaves and storms.
"Climate change is making us sick, and urgent action is a matter of life and death," the World Health Organization warned this week.
Here are some of the ways that global warming affects health.
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