Heat stress and increase in insect-borne diseases particularly acute in smaller states, warns secretary general Lady Scotland
Patricia Scotland says that when she became Commonwealth secretary general in 2016, it was hard for people to grasp that climate change was ‘omnipresent’.Patricia Scotland says that when she became Commonwealth secretary general in 2016, it was hard for people to grasp that climate change was ‘omnipresent’.Climate change is now the biggest concern facing health ministers in Commonwealth countries, the organisation’s secretary general has warned.
“If you look at what’s happening in zoonotic diseases, if you look at what’s changing in terms of malaria, lots of dengue fever,Referring to the international target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, Lady Scotland said: “If you look at Tuvalu, we said in 2015, that it was ‘“We are now at 1.5 . So every time the ministers leave Tuvalu, they are never totally confident that when they come back, their island will still be there.
Commonwealth officials offer examples of climate-related health problems across the organisation and say they are not confined to the poorer member states – awarned that Canada was likely to see more “exotic” infectious diseases as well as more cases of locally endemic diseases such as
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