Perspective health promotion policy planning to adapt to climate change.

Abstract

The industrial revolution provided human beings with high quality, convenient lifestyles. However, overdevelopment and excessive consumption caused global warming and climate change, impacted human living environments and socioeconomic systems seriously, and ultimately became issues that need to be settled urgently. Ever since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into effect in 1994, all advanced countries began to address climate change proactively. For example, Japan formed the Committee on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research in 2008. The UK introduced the Climate Change Act in 2008. Australia passed the Clean Energy Act in 2011. Also, the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit 3 suggested that addressing climate change has become an urgent and vital issue around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) published the “Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s” in 2014, which listed the impact of climate change on health as one of the most important issues worth studying and estimated that between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause w250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress. The direct cost of damage to health (i.e., excluding costs in