COP27: The Prospects and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
نویسندگان
1 Department of Global Health & Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4 Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
5 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
6 School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
7 Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
8 Menzies Centre for Health Governance, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
9 Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
10 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
11 Department Health Management, Policy & Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
12 Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
13 Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
14 Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
15 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
16 O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
17 Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
18 Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
19 School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
20 University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda
doi
10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7800چکیده
In line with the global trend, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been growing vulnerable to the direct and indirect health effects of climate change including death tolls due to climatological disasters and diseases sensitive to climate change since the industrial revolution. Regarding the limited capacity of MENA countries to adapt and respond to these effects, and also after relative failures of the previous negotiation in Glasgow, in the upcoming COP27 in Egypt, the heads of the region’s parties are determined to take advantage of the opportunity to host MENA to mitigate and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This would be achieved through mobilizing international partners to support climate resilience, a major economic transformation, and put health policy and management in a strategic position to contribute to thinking and action on these pressing matters, at least to avoid or minimize the future adverse consequences.
