Impacts of climate change on Egyptian population and the role of public health to mitigate its hazards

In October 2020 the World Bank approved a 200 million dollars project for Egypt to improve air quality, combat climate change and reduce emissions of air pollutants and global warming. Population will be protected from climate change by essential package of public health interventions. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report (2018) explores Egypt’s current development trajectory to 2030 across areas of human and economic development. It then presents five alternative scenarios designed to help explore the impact of different policies on economic and social development indicators. Using the International Futures (IFs) modeling platform, these scenarios are evaluated in terms of their ability to accelerate progress towards achieving many of the targets set in the United Nation’s (SDGs) and Egypt’s SDS, referred to as Vision 2030 (Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform, 2016). Egypt announced it will be the host of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 27 in 2022. Public health professionals are the key keepers for community needs and health promotion activities besides their role in surveillance and management of environmental changes especially that related to industrial and occupational safety measures.

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