AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

This course provides an introduction to the health challenges, as well as the opportunities, that can by associated to climate change. It includes one module divided into 3 sections, and takes around 2 hours to complete.This specialized module introduces the theme of climate change and human health. Human health is directly affected by the weather, climate variability and climate change. The module will explain how mitigation and adaptation policies and measures in health and related sectors can benefit the human health. Moreover, the module presentstools to assess and integrate health within climate change policies and strategies and vice versa. Several examples of how countries are responding to the health challenges posed by climate change, including taking advantage of the opportunities, are presented. The module has been developed and peer-reviewed through UN CC:Learn, with technical leadership provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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