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Greater Investment in Climate Services for Health Needed for Escalating Challenges
Foundation: Rockefeller Foundation
The World Meteorological Organization and the UK's Wellcome Trust are teaming up to fight climate change and its health effects, with a $25 million grant to the WHO and a $6 million donation to the WMO, the BBC reports.
"Rising temperatures, extreme weather, and shifting disease patterns are straining health systems worldwide.
Yet, despite growing awareness, we're not fully leveraging climate information and services for health decisions," WMO Assistant Secretary-General Thomas Asare said at the World Health Summit in Berlin last week.
"Each year, extreme heat alone claims on average nearly half a million lives, whilst severe weather patterns are driving outbreaks of diseases like malaria, cholera, and dengue fever, and polluted air increases respiratory diseases, cancer, and dementia worldwide," says Alan Dangour, director of climate and health at Wellcome.
A Rockefeller Foundation report released in September called for more investment in climate and health services, particularly at the urban level, where people are most exposed to climate-related health risks.
The report called for more investment in digital goods and services that can respond to the "tsunami" of demand for climate and weather information from countries, and for national meteorological services to become "frontline partners to plan and become more resilient to extreme weather and climate change impacts Read the Entire Article
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