For example, almost 80% of deaths caused by air pollution could be avoided if current air pollution levels were reduced to the WHO Air Quality guidelines,” said Dr Neira.
The WHO survey finds that insufficient finance continues to be the top stumbling block to fully implementing national health and climate change plans, cited by 70% of countries (up from 56% in 2019).
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人力资源限制是第二大障碍，同时，约三分之一的国家认为缺乏跨部门合作也是一项主要障碍。
Human resource constraints are the second biggest barrier, whilst about one third of countries identified a lack of intersectoral collaboration as a key barrier.
About half of the countries report that the COVID-19 emergency has slowed progress on addressing climate change by diverting health personnel and resources, and continues to threaten national health authorities’ abilities to plan and prepare for climate-related health stresses and shocks.
The report also notes a potential missed opportunity to identify and optimize the health benefits of adaptation and mitigation efforts in other sectors, which could have fed into a clean, healthy recovery from COVID-19: structural and social determinants of health, such as education, equity, gender, urban planning, housing, energy and transportation systems was represented in fewer than half of the established multisectoral mechanisms.
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该系列的第一份报告发布于2019年。
The first report in this series was released in 2019.
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这是第二份报告，简要概述了各国政府在应对气候变化的健康风险方面取得的总体进展，意义重大。
This second report provides a valuable snapshot of the overall progress governments have made in addressing the health risks of climate change.
“ “The challenge now is to remove the barriers that are preventing countries from finalizing and implementing plans,” said Tara Neville, Technical Officer at the WHODepartment of Environment, Climate Change and Health and lead author of the survey report.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2021 health and climate changeglobal survey report provides a valuable snapshot of the overall progress governments have made in addressing the health risks of climate change.
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关于卫生和气候变化关键指标的调查结果旨在增强决策者权能，以便就政策和计划的实施做出知情决定；
The findings on key health and climate change indicators aim to empower policy makers to: make informed decisions on the implementation of policies and plans; identify evidence gaps; and better understand the barriers to achieving adaptation and resilience priorities in the health sector while maximizing the health benefits of sector-wide climate mitigation efforts.