Climate Change & Health

This collaboration aims to find ways to protect people from health risks brought about by climate change. Public health experts are increasingly demonstrating the evidence of mortality and morbidity impacts from extreme weather events like heat waves and flooding.

On 21 October 2010 the Climate Change & Health Working Group convened a high-level roundtable to bring together key Health and Protection representatives with leading environmental epidemiologists to plan what the industry can do collaboratively going forward. 

The roundtable proposed that, as the Government and wider society are encouraged to look to the private sector to provide a range of welfare benefits, the Health and Protection industry needs to explore how to incorporate the health impacts of extreme weather into risk models. This is also a golden opportunity to go on the front foot and build a reputation as a protection service provider with society’s interests at heart.
 

The Climate Change & Health presentation starts at 5:34 

ClimateWise: Adaptation in the Developing World and Climate Change & Health Collaborations

Next Steps:
The October 2010 roundtable recommended that simple actions were put in place to move the industry from a position of too many ‘known unknowns’ to one where the central value creation questions are properly understood. These will be taken forward principally by ClimateWise over the coming months.

For more information please contact: info@climatewise.org.uk