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Saturday, 8 May 2021, 4:51 pm
South Africa, 7 May 2021:- South African and
pan-African health groups are calling on the South African
government to recognise that health is the bottom line of
climate change, and to put health at the heart of its
climate commitments ahead of this November’s COP26 global
climate meeting.
In
its public submission on South Africa’s draft updated
Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the Public
Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), the South
African Medical Association (SAMA), and Amref Health Africa
note that climate change poses severe and numerous threats
to human health: “In South Africa, these include exposure