NEW DELHI: (Jul 1) Placing health at the centre of climate action makes it practical for people, governments and local bodies to act on, since climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution undermine human and ecological health alike, posing an existential threat to humanity, a former top official of a UN body said.
Speaking to PTI Videos on the United Nation’s Asia-Pacific synergies report, its co-author Soumya Swaminathan said that heat, waterborne and vector-borne diseases, displacement, rising gender-based violence, and impacts on nutrition affect health first, adding that the report places health firmly at the centre of the actions it encourages countries to take.
The report, released on Tuesday by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), examined how countries like India and China are using health-centred approaches, from sustainable cooling initiatives to sacred grove restoration, to advance climate, biodiversity and SDG goals together.
Source: PTI News
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