Climate Change: A Public Health Issue

Climate change, and its health consequences, can be combated with mitigation and adaptation like reducing greenhouse gas emissions and developing action plans in extreme conditions, gathering more information on risks, identifying most effective measures and ameliorating surveillance of animal diseases. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines “climate change” as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods”