Waterborne Diseases that are sensitive to climate variability and climate change

All stages of the fossil-fuel life cycle are a threat to human health, yet global overdependence on fossil fuel continues unabated, despite ambitious international agreements to lower greenhouse-gas emissions substantially by 2030. According to the World Health Organization, “The modern addiction to fossil fuels is not just an act of environmental vandalism. From the health perspective, it is an act of self-sabotage.”1 A rapid transition to renewable energy is critically needed, but access to clean energy remains a challenge, par- ticularly in the Global South, where close to 1 billion people are served by health care facilities without access to reliable energy services.2

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