Sixteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

The vulnerability of human health is apparently linked to climate change. Invariably, a clean environment is essential for human health and wellbeing; conversely, unrestrained and uncontrolled development contributes to environmental health issues because it overexploits the natural environment and its resources. Undoubtedly, environmental health challenges have become worldwide issues and the consequences can be immediate and chronic, including water-borne infections caused by inadequate sanitation or skin cancer caused by exposure to arsenic in groundwater or excessive UV radiation (due to depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer). Furthermore, growing environmental pollution has caused major concern to population lives since the liberalization and deregulation, in tandem with rapid economic expansion. Wildfires in Australia and California, China’s worst floods, the first-ever heatwave in Antarctica with rising temperatures above 20 °C, microplastic discovered in Antarctic ice, and crop destruction by locusts swarming across parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia occurred in the year 2020 alone. Additionally, habitat loss is also an important environmental problem, and it is being caused by land clearance for agriculture cash crops, making agriculture the largest driver of deforestation. This research emphasizes the role of environmental quality, government policies, and human health, and it is imperative that government actions and health systems must be modified as soon as possible to address these rising concerns successfully. The goal of the work is to elucidate an overview of environmental change’s health impacts and explore how health hazards may be reduced or eliminated through effective adaptation strategies.

Presenters

Benjamin Adebisi
Researcher, Functional and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Anatomy, Cell Biology, Brain and Neurodegeneration, Osun, Nigeria