Greenhouse Gas

Climate change is impacting human lives and health [blank] a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health - clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter - and has the potential [blank] undermine decades of progress in global health. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year [blank] malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone. Areas with weak health infrastructure - mostly in developing countries - will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond. Greenhouse gas emissions that result from the extraction and burning [blank] fossil fuels are major contributors to both climate change and air pollution. Many policies and individual measures have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce major health co-benefits, particularly [blank] abating air pollution. The phase out of polluting energy systems could both lower carbon emissions and cut the burden of household and ambient air pollution.