Africa-Press – Botswana. The World Health Organization (WHO) defended, this Sunday, in a statement, that the health sector should be at the center of discussions at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27).
“Our focus is to put at the center of discussions the threat that the climate crisis poses to health and the enormous gains that would result from stronger climate action”, reads the document that Lusa had access to.
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said: “Climate change is making millions of people sick or more vulnerable to disease around the world, and the growing destructiveness of extreme weather events disproportionately affects poor and marginalized communities,” the statement said. .
The 27th UN summit on climate change began today in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and aims to discuss the fight against global warming and adaptation to climate change.
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