Worse, some studies show an increase in vaccine hesitancy since the Covid-19 pandemic in some populations—making building vaccine confidence all the more urgent in the face of climate change.
The climate crisis threatens to undo the last 50 years of progress in development, global health and poverty reduction, the World Health Organisation has warned. It also raises significant human rights issues. While climate change has not traditionally been seen as a health and human rights concern, that may be changing.
Recent high-profile court cases in India’s Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights framed climate change health issues as a human rights concern.
Against that backdrop, this special report which coincides with the 2024 World Health Summit, a regional meeting hosted by Monash University on April 22 to 24 examines the various ways in which climate change,…
