From COP28 to Belém – Climate Security is Health Security By Desta Lakew and Richard Muyungi Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

Less than one percent of adaptation finance targets health, even as climate-sensitive diseases multiply. Africa alone will need roughly $300 billion annually by 2030 to build resilient systems and respond to climate-related loss and damage. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/from-cop28-to-belem-climate-security-is-health-security/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Inside_COPs_th_Hour_Negotiations_for_LegacyBuilding_Belm_Climate_Deal_A_Disputed_Roadmap_to_Leave_Fo BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 20 2025 (IPS) - Around the world, the climate crisis is fast becoming the biggest public-health threat of the century. Extreme heat now kills more Europeans than any other natural disaster. Floods in Asia displace millions and contaminate water supplies. Mosquito-borne diseases once confined to the tropics are appearing in southern Europe and the United States. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.