The environment faces myriads of challenges including rapid loss of forest cover, reduced availability and quality of drinking water, species extinction and loss of biodiversity, to mention few. Globally, 3.2 billion people are affected by land degradation, and it is estimated that 95% of the Earth’s land area could become degraded by 2050 (GEF, 2022). Many assessments of global environmental change have painted a consistent negative picture of the state of the global environment and of the impact of human activities. Climate change in particular is identified as a critical global challenge whose impacts are already evident. In the midst of global environmental challenges, global crisis of chronic diseases and failure of public health to stem the rise in highly preventable risk factors have left populations vulnerable to acute health emergencies such as COVID-19. In today’s tightly connected world, a disease threat anywhere is a disease threat everywhere. There is therefore the need to sync efforts and share information if humanity is to survive and overcome the various daunting global challenges.
The Conference on: “Environment, Climate and Health” therefore seeks to bring together researchers, academics, policymakers, private sector and civil society groups to discuss and share ideas, research findings and innovative models on relevant issues of development on the thematic areas of the conference as outlined below. Poster sessions would be held in parallel. A plenary session will climax the event.