The health effects of climate change impacts on biodiversity
This policy brief addresses the significant and emerging threat of climate change to public health and the risks posed by the continuing loss of biodiversity and the global degradation of ecosystems to our long-term good health. It warns for disaster risk, and especially those triggered by weather-related events such as floods, landslides, droughts, heat waves, fire and storms, to impact critical and fragile ecosystems, to put them at greater risk, and to affect essential food resources and the health of agricultural systems and fishery resources. It then calls for the the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Health Organization to build closer collaboration in order to mainstream biodiversity concerns and conservation strategies into local, national and global policy and action to mitigate and adapt to the health implications of climate change.