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🌍 Climate change and social impact 🌍 Preventing a health catastrophe limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C will prevent millions of climate change-related issues. While past emissions guarantee some degree of warming, every additional tenth of a degree poses a grave threat to lives and well-being. We cannot afford further delays. ⚠ Climate is changing at an alarming rate, with heatwaves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms, and hurricanes growing in scale, frequency, and intensity. 🔍 3.6 billion people already reside in highly climate-vulnerable areas, facing increased risks of undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, and heat stress.   💔 Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is projected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, underscoring the urgent need for action to mitigate its impact on human health. 💲The direct damage costs to health, excluding impacts on sectors like agriculture and water, are estimated to reach US$ 2–4 billion annually by 2030. 💡 Emphasizing the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, making better choices in transport, food, and energy use can yield significant health benefits by mitigating air pollution and its detrimental effects. The World Health Organization (#WHO) outlines a powerful framework for action: ✅ Promoting #clean #energy and ensuring health being at the core of climate policies, will maximizing the #benefits. ✅ Building #Resilience, by making climate-resilient and support health systems in adopting cleaner #technologies while #decarbonizing existing ones. Invest in a climate-smart #health #workforce. ✅Protecting Health, by conduct #vulnerability assessments and integrate climate #risks into surveillance and response systems. Strengthen resilience in water, sanitation, and food systems. Bridge the health #adaptation funding gap. Share your thoughts in the comments below! 🩺 (Source of the picture: ) #climateaction #health #who

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