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COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for solutions

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Climate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing more than half a million people each year through extreme heat and threatening hospitals worldwide, according to a major report released on Friday at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

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Geneva.- More than 540,000 people die each year due to heat waves, which also affect the operations of one in 12 hospitals in the world, warns a report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The study published jointly with the Government of Brazil, host of the current COP30 Climate Summit in Belém, also recalls that up to 3,500 million people could be living in areas highly vulnerable to climate change. The risk of hospital damage from extreme…

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UN News broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, November 14, 2025.
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