Climate variability and extreme weather events are among the most important factors that have led to the recent increase in world hunger and are one of the main causes of serious food crises. After a decade of steady reduction, hunger is on the rise again: more than 820 million people were hungry in 2018.
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"Health:
more deaths and illnesses driven by climate change
People’s health and health systems are paying an increasingly high price because of extreme heat conditions.
In
2019, high temperatures in Australia, India, Japan and Europe broke all
records and adversely affected the health and well-being of the
population. In Japan, an intense heat wave resulted in more than 100
deaths and 18,000 additional hospital admissions. In France, more than
20,000 visits to the emergency department for heat-related illnesses
were recorded between June and mid-September, and during two major heat
waves there were 1462 deaths in the affected regions.
In
addition, changes in climatic conditions that have occurred since 1950
facilitate the transmission of the dengue virus by Aedes mosquitoes and
increase the risk of contracting the disease. The global incidence of
dengue fever has increased dramatically in recent decades, and the risk
of infection affects approximately half of the world’s population."