Oluwatobi Adu 
ABUJA, Nigeria – The climate change and health crisis is accelerating, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) and the French government to call for stronger global action to build climate-resilient healthcare systems as extreme weather events increasingly threaten public health.
According to a report released by the WHO on Wednesday, the meeting coincides with an intense 41°C heatwave in Paris, highlighting the growing health risks posed by rising global temperatures.
Leaders at the meeting stress that countries must place climate change and health at the centre of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans and future global climate assessments to better prepare health systems for climate-related emergencies.
WHO Head of the Climate Change, Air Quality and Energy Unit, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, says the record temperatures are part of a broader climate pattern driven by human activity.
“We’re all experiencing this heatwave, but it isn’t just a one-off event. It’s absolutely clear that these kinds of events we are now experiencing around France and around the world are part of the pattern of what we have done by putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.”
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