CLIMATE CHANGE-RELATED HEALTH RISKS NEED TO BE PRIORITISED

摘要

The world needs to rapidly scale up efforts to reduce climate-related risks to health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, adding that failure to provide adequate mitigation and adaptation measures could pose unacceptable risks to global public health. "Solutions exist and we need to act decisively to change this trajectory," Margaret Chan, WHO director-general, told delegates at the first ever conference hosted by the global agency on health and climate change.