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Safeguarding human health from #ClimateChange impacts 🌪️🌊🔥🌞 is more urgent than ever, yet most countries are not acting fully on their own plans to achieve this, according to the WHO first global snapshot of progress on climate change & health 👉bit.ly/2YdhTPO #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC The most common #ClimateChange sensitive health risks identified by countries:
🌞heat stress
🌪️injury or death from extreme weather events
🦟 food, water and vector-borne diseases (such as cholera, dengue or malaria).

bit.ly/2YdhTPO #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC Countries are increasingly prioritising #ClimateChange & health, with half of the 101 countries surveyed having developed a national health & climate change strategy or plan. bit.ly/2YdhTPO #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC Worryingly, only about 2 in 5 countries have finances in place to even partially implement their national #ClimateChange and health strategy or plan, and fewer than 1 in 10 are channelling resources to implement it completely. bit.ly/2YdhTPO #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC 3 in 4 countries have difficulties in accessing international #ClimateAction finance to protect the health of their people. bit.ly/2YdhTPO #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC Meeting the goals of the #ParisAgreement could save about 1 MILLION lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in #AirPollution alone.

Instead, air pollution kills 7 million people every year! #COP25

@pahowho @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @DrTedros @antonioguterres @UN @UNFCCC Less than 1 in 4 countries have clear collaborations between health and the key sectors driving #ClimateChange and #AirPollution:
🚗Transportation
💡Electricity generation
🏘️Household energy
#COP25