The strategy is part of a draft report from the World Health Organization's chief on health, environment and climate.
GENEVA (AN) — With 7 million people a year dying from exposure to polluted air, the World Health Organization is weighing a new strategy to pinpoint the sources and take collective action to reduce risks.
The strategy is part of a draft report from WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on health, environment and climate change. He prepared a second draft report on how climate change was affecting the health of small island developing nations.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
