Impact of Climate Change in Health in Colombia and Recommendations for Mitigation and Adaptation
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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Climate change has been called the
most important threat to human health in the 21st century. It
is estimated that if thetemperature rises and its impact on
the other climatic variablescontinues unchanged, it will
kill more than 83 million people (1 percent of the world’s
population) in the next 80 years (Wattset al. 2020)—13 times
the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic (WorldHealth Organization
2023). Historically, only pandemics or worldwars have posed
such threats to human health. As a result,the issue has
aroused unprecedented attention. In 2021, the World Health
Organization (WHO) declared climate changethe greatest
health threat facing humanity (WHO 2021). Now, more than 195
governments have included climate change mitigation and
adaptation as pillars in their multi-year plans, and
government health sectors have been developing plans
tomeasure and respond to the impact of climate change on
health. However, recognition of the links between climate
change and health remains nascent, so these efforts have not
yet been accompanied by strategic and actionable approaches
to measure the impacts and ground the responses. This report
contributes to addressing that gap by providing a framework
for understandingthe impact of climate change on human
health in Colombia and by outlining the most effective
actions to mitigate the threat.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH, THREAT MITIGATION, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION