On the occasion of World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a high-priority call for rapid step to be taken in order to protect human health and battle against the climate catastrophe.
As claimed in the update by the global health agency’s air quality database on Monday that more or less 99% people inhale unhealthy air resulting from incineration of hydrocarbon deposit fumes.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that, “the same unsustainable possible course of actions that are life-threatening to our planet are killing people: the climate disaster is a health disaster.”
The agency claimed that, while the COVID-19 pandemic already featured inequality around the world, the urgency for making sustainable, well-being societies is much required at a moment of heightened contradiction and sensitivity.
A statement based on the WHO’s air quality standard, 7 million premature deaths globally are directly associated to exposure to poisonous air every year and the lives 0f 13 million people are lost due to avoidable environmental reasons.
Human activities that cause the rise in temperate are leading to intense events such as flash flooding, intense temperature, extreme hurricanes and longer-burning bushfire, putting human lives in danger and costing regimes hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle.
Dr. Maria Neira, the director of WHO’s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health said that, later surviving a pandemic, “it is not acceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and many preventable lost years of sound health due to air pollution.”
She went on to say that many solutions exist to prevent unnecessary loss, highlighting the three transitions outlined by the WHO in a manifesto to ensure a green recovery from COVID-19: access to renewable energy, livable urban designs, and a sustainable food system.
She went on to say that many solutions exist to prevent unnecessary loss, highlighting the three transitions outlined by the WHO in a manifesto to ensure a green recovery from COVID-19: access to renewable energy, livable urban designs, and a sustainable food system.
On March 22, China released its 14th FYP for the energy sector, a much foresee document that sets the tone for the industry’s growth from 2021 to 2025. The scheme came with the “top level” instruction and a brief implementation roadmap to emphasize the importance of the “clean and efficient” use of coal.
In inclusion, China also listed various schemes to get as far as carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, and also policies to protect water and food security.
Ghebreyesus said that, “we need life-changing solutions to detach the world off its addiction to fossil fuels, to reimagine economies and societies focused on well-being, and to protect the health of the planet on which human health depends.”
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