TY - JOUR
T1 - COP27
T2 - The Prospects and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
AU - Takian, Amirhossein
AU - Mousavi, Arefeh
AU - McKee, Martin
AU - Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Vahid
AU - Labonté, Ronald
AU - Tangcharoensathien, Viroj
AU - Brugha, Ruairí
AU - Bradley, Elizabeth
AU - Gostin, Lawrence
AU - Engebretsen, Eivind
AU - Eyal, Nir
AU - Friel, Sharon
AU - Rodwin, Victor G.
AU - Norheim, Ole F.
AU - Hajizadeh, Mohammad
AU - Ikegami, Naoki
AU - Binagwaho, Agnes
AU - Kickbusch, Ilona
AU - Aryankhesal, Aidin
AU - Haghdoost, Ali Akbar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s);.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - In line with the global trend, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been growing vulnerable to the direct and indirect health effects of climate change including death tolls due to climatological disasters and diseases sensitive to climate change since the industrial revolution. Regarding the limited capacity of MENA countries to adapt and respond to these effects, and also after relative failures of the previous negotiation in Glasgow, in the upcoming COP27 in Egypt, the heads of the region’s parties are determined to take advantage of the opportunity to host MENA to mitigate and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This would be achieved through mobilizing international partners to support climate resilience, a major economic transformation, and put health policy and management in a strategic position to contribute to thinking and action on these pressing matters, at least to avoid or minimize the future adverse consequences.
AB - In line with the global trend, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been growing vulnerable to the direct and indirect health effects of climate change including death tolls due to climatological disasters and diseases sensitive to climate change since the industrial revolution. Regarding the limited capacity of MENA countries to adapt and respond to these effects, and also after relative failures of the previous negotiation in Glasgow, in the upcoming COP27 in Egypt, the heads of the region’s parties are determined to take advantage of the opportunity to host MENA to mitigate and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This would be achieved through mobilizing international partners to support climate resilience, a major economic transformation, and put health policy and management in a strategic position to contribute to thinking and action on these pressing matters, at least to avoid or minimize the future adverse consequences.
KW - COP27
KW - Climate Change
KW - Health Effects
KW - MENA Region
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U2 - 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7800
DO - 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7800
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 37579348
AN - SCOPUS:85144945265
SN - 2322-5939
VL - 11
SP - 2776
EP - 2779
JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
JF - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
IS - 12
ER -