Climate Change and Health; an Appraisal on Implications for Research, Monitoring and Policy

Abstract

The impact of climate change on the various sectors was appraised and the findings showed that climate stress on agriculture may mean up to 300 million additional victims of malnutrition worldwide each year .Extreme floods and drought are projected to become more severe as global warming worsens. These extremes were found to be responsible for the non availability and supply of safe drinking water. Diseases associated with flooding, could affects millions more people every year. Extreme weather events, like abnormal storms and flooding that have devastated many communities across the country in recent times. The World’s leading authority on global warming, the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) has concluded that unchecked global warming will cause a significant increase in human mortality due to extreme weather and infectious disease. Malaria could become even more common as global warming worsens. It was projected that a warmer temperature spread north and south from the tropics and to higher elevations. Malaria carrying mosquitoes will spread with them.