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Climate emergency is generating global health crisis, UN agency says

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A man and a boy walk across the dried bed of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India on May 2, 2022. [AP Photo]

Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress toward better health and well-being, particularly in the most vulnerable communities, according to a new report by the U.N. weather agency.

In its annual State of Climate Services report, the World Meteorological Organization on Thursday warned that the climate crisis was generating a global health crisis and said that many ill effects of climate change could be tempered by adaptation and prevention measures.

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