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INPACC Inception Workshop 2023
Rozita Hod MD, MPH, PhD, Head & Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia
1. Climate change and impacts on human health
2. Climate sensitive diseases situation in Malaysia
3. Mitigation and adaptation in the Malaysian health sector
This World Meterological Organization report was prepared in cooperation with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and other United Nations agencies and international partners. It also looks at climate drivers in 2023 – including the last El Niño event – temperature, precipitation and extreme events like tropical cyclones, drought and extreme heat in the region.
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Climate change will wreak havoc on small island developing states in the Pacific and elsewhere. Some will be swamped by rising seas. These communities also face more extreme weather, increasingly acidic oceans, coral bleaching and harm to fisheries. Food supplies, human health and livelihoods are at risk. And it’s clear other countries burning fossil fuels are largely to blame.
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