Climate Change and Health Hazards: Mitigation Roles of Public Sectors (Ministry, Department and Agencies)

Abstract

Addressing hazards to human and environmental health due to changing climate becomes a subject of debates and discourse among decision makers in the Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs), across the globe. The paper highlights the actual and potential roles of the MDAs in mitigating climate change related health hazards. In this regard, an extensive literature review was conducted, to search for publications on climate change issues and mitigation roles of the MDAs, focusing on air, land, water and food security among other climate change issues, to highlights the interdependence between environmental changes, climate change and health hazards, and how to mitigate them. Therefore, the narrative has emanate from the roles assumed by various MDAs in mainstreaming climate change policies, with which they take care of the climate change hazards confronting the global communities. Indeed, there is hardly an MDA that is completely insulated from climate change issues, as such the content of the paper can be adopted elsewhere, for similar results.