The United Nations has said that global warming and its effects, including a rise in air and sea temperatures and extreme weather patterns, is not only dangerous for the planet but is also dangerous to human health.
In addition to global warming causing more frequent and more severe storms, heat waves, droughts and floods, climate change affected the quality and availability of water and food which is our fundamental determinants of nutrition and health.
the often-overlooked reality needs to be recognized, the protecting human health is embedded in the heart of the global climate change agenda.
Problems like malnutrition and climate-related infectious diseases will take their heaviest toll on the most vulnerable small children, the elderly and the infirm, adding women living in poverty faced particular risk when natural disasters and other global-warming related dangers strike.
Climate change is real, it is accelerating and it threatens all of us.
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