Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 people by 2030
Q. Climate change is likely to kill how many people each year by 2030, according to a latest WHO assessment?- Published on 11 Jul 16a. 250,400
b. 240,000
c. 250,000
d. None of the above
ANSWER: 250,000
Climate change will kill around 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest assessment by the WHO shows.
- Many of these deaths are caused by malaria, heat stress, malnutrition and diarrhoea disease.
- India is expected to contribute significantly to the global death toll.
- Heaviest burden of climate change will fall on elderly, children and women as well as the poor creating further health inequalities
- UN agency has set up an agenda and proposed key actions for implementation during the recent Paris meet.
- WHO estimates that climate change is causing tens of thousands of death every year
- Deaths arise from epidemics like cholera and dengue as well as extreme weather events.
