Climate change and health in small island developing states
A WHO special initiative
Overview
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Initiative on Climate Change and Health was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP-23) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, in November 2017, in collaboration with UNFCCC and the Fijian Presidency of the COP-23.
This report has been prepared in response to informal requests by SIDS Member States and territories for WHO assistance in confronting the stark and dire situation which climate change has created in their countries and the impact it is having on their peoples. It is also the joint vision of Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, Prime Minister Frank Bainamarama of Fiji and President of the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP23), and Ms Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, when they launched the SIDS Initiative at the COP in Bonn in November 2017.