Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health

In the last five years, the number of voices calling for stronger international action on climate change and health has increased, as has the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately integrate...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH EMISSIONS ADAPTATION MITIGATION AIR POLLUTION
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spelling	okr-10986-278102021-05-25T09:55:06Z Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health World Bank CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH EMISSIONS ADAPTATION MITIGATION AIR POLLUTION In the last five years, the number of voices calling for stronger international action on climate change and health has increased, as has the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately integrated. As a result, actions to address climate change including World Bank Group investment and lending are missing opportunities to simultaneously promote better health outcomes and resilience.This paper begins by identifying the health impacts that are being felt today and that are projected to worsen in the future without efforts to ensure health considerations are central to any and all climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Chapter 1 includes an outline of the scope of health impacts from climate change and its drivers, the means of transmission, and a description of the drivers of climate change, and their sources. Chapter 2 describes the methodology used to identify these nations and determine their preparedness for coping with these impacts. Chapter 3 identifies hotspot countries based on this analysis, and narrows the focus to those countries that are both most likely to bear the brunt of a greater burden of disease and death from climate change and climate drivers, and that are the least ready to cope. Coping mechanisms through mitigation and adaptation measures, are outlined in Chapter 4, as are the multiple benefits that can be expected from multi-sector, concerted efforts to address health impacts from climate change, and its drivers. 2017-08-14T22:09:34Z 2017-08-14T22:09:34Z 2017 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/209401495434344235/Geographic-hotspots-for-World-Bank-action-on-climate-change-and-health-investing-in-climate-change-and-health-series http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27810 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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description	In the last five years, the number of voices calling for stronger international action on climate change and health has increased, as has the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately integrated. As a result, actions to address climate change including World Bank Group investment and lending are missing opportunities to simultaneously promote better health outcomes and resilience.This paper begins by identifying the health impacts that are being felt today and that are projected to worsen in the future without efforts to ensure health considerations are central to any and all climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Chapter 1 includes an outline of the scope of health impacts from climate change and its drivers, the means of transmission, and a description of the drivers of climate change, and their sources. Chapter 2 describes the methodology used to identify these nations and determine their preparedness for coping with these impacts. Chapter 3 identifies hotspot countries based on this analysis, and narrows the focus to those countries that are both most likely to bear the brunt of a greater burden of disease and death from climate change and climate drivers, and that are the least ready to cope. Coping mechanisms through mitigation and adaptation measures, are outlined in Chapter 4, as are the multiple benefits that can be expected from multi-sector, concerted efforts to address health impacts from climate change, and its drivers.
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title	Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health
title_short	Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health
title_full	Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health
title_fullStr	Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health
title_full_unstemmed	Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health
title_sort	geographic hotspots for world bank action on climate change and health
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/209401495434344235/Geographic-hotspots-for-World-Bank-action-on-climate-change-and-health-investing-in-climate-change-and-health-series http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27810
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Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health

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