Climate change and women’s health: Call for research and innovations

Friday Okonofua

Abstract

Climate change has featured repeatedly in the most recent discourses on global development1 . Several global conferences have been held in recent times to discuss and reach consensus on ways to ameliorate the causes and address the consequences of climate change worldwide. These conferences, now called “Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework on Climate change” have taken place in many countries over the last couple of years. The most recent conferences included COP26 and COP27 which took place in Glasgow, UK 2021 and Sham El Sheikh, Egypt in 2022 respectively. The COP28, which took place in Dubai, UAE in 2023 focused on the theme “unite, act, deliver”, and was attended by over 85,000 participants2 .

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