Tedros said the health and associated economic benefits of measures to help the world cope with climate change far outweighed the investment needed to put them in place.
A worker hoists a United Nations flag with other national flags of participating countries at the venue of the COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai on November 30, 2023.
There has been growing focus on the health impacts of global heating at the annual United Nations climate talks, with last year's COP28 in Dubai for the first time including a day focused on health.The Baku summit will be the last UN climate summit before Donald Trump's return as United States president in January.
"These impacts are not distant or abstract -- they are felt now, through record-breaking temperatures in India, deadly floods in Kenya and Spain, megafires in the Amazon, and hurricanes in the United States."WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said extreme weather was disrupting health, water and sanitation systems, fuelling and worsening outbreaks of non-communicable diseases.
Extreme heat leads to health risks such as kidney disorders, strokes, adverse pregnancy outcomes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, organ failure and ultimately death.
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