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12/12/2003
Climate change killed 150,000 in 2000: UN report
Climate change is taking a serious toll on health, with more than 150,000 directly related deaths worldwide in 2000, according to a United Nations report.
The report, 'Climate Change and Human Health – Risks and Responses', stated that climate change was responsible for 150,000 deaths, 2.4% of the world’s cases of diarrhoea and 2% of all malaria cases in 2000.
Launched at the 9th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan yesterday, the study surveyed how climate change has an impact on human health, from influencing weather patterns and air pollution to causing water and food contamination.
The report, co-authored by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), also contains with guidelines offering governments and organizations "practical advice" on how to respond to the problems.
Dr Kerstin Leitner, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, said: “There is growing evidence that changes in the global climate will have profound effects on the health and well-being of citizens in countries throughout the world.”
The WHO said the guidelines had been issued in the wake of the heat wave in Europe this summer, when about 20,000 people are estimated to have died.
The 1990s have been recorded as the hottest decade in recorded history.
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The report, 'Climate Change and Human Health – Risks and Responses', stated that climate change was responsible for 150,000 deaths, 2.4% of the world’s cases of diarrhoea and 2% of all malaria cases in 2000.
Launched at the 9th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan yesterday, the study surveyed how climate change has an impact on human health, from influencing weather patterns and air pollution to causing water and food contamination.
The report, co-authored by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), also contains with guidelines offering governments and organizations "practical advice" on how to respond to the problems.
Dr Kerstin Leitner, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, said: “There is growing evidence that changes in the global climate will have profound effects on the health and well-being of citizens in countries throughout the world.”
The WHO said the guidelines had been issued in the wake of the heat wave in Europe this summer, when about 20,000 people are estimated to have died.
The 1990s have been recorded as the hottest decade in recorded history.
(gmcg)
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