What is Climate Change?
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
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“‘Climate change’ refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.”
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This strays from the more divisive UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), that proposes climate change is:
“A change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods”.
Though the two definitions vary in the causation, the result is still clear: climate change is the alteration of the Earth’s environmental systems over time. Now, we will look at why this is important to global health.
Read Mayci Namio’s story - “Climate Change: The Greatest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century.”
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