A Panel Snapshot of Climate Change (CO2) Emission on Health Risk: The Case of Relating Sub-Saharan Africa to Different Country Regions

Abstract

The rising concern that the effect of climate change on population health risk is gradually generating significant attention. This no doubt influenced the exploration of climate change (co2) emission on population health risk in the case of relating African to different income regions. This study made use of fixed panel cross-sectional analysis, descriptive analysis and correlation coefficient index to estimate the study objective which was to investigate the effects of climate change (co2) emission on population health risk among different country income regions from 2000 to 2021 from the World Bank Indicators (WBI) across the selected income countries and region. Findings showed that climate change (Co2) emission per capita, gross domestic product per capita, and food production index, have negative and significant effects on population health risk, whereas, urban population defecation has a positive and significant effect on the population health risk among different country regions. Specifically, carbon dioxide emissions (C02) (c02empc) are highly associated with High-Income countries (HIC) when compared to other income regions. Hence, argued that attention should be to infrastructural sustainability and provision to maintain a clean environment. In addition, more energy should be channelled into food production and livestock production, especially for low-income regions to mitigate the overall effects of carbon dioxide emissions (C02) (c02empc) to tackle food security. Urgent policy actions and responses to air and water quality as useful adaptation strategies in the wider context of climate affect resilience for low-income regions like SSA countries.