Look to protecting health first.
So with climate smart infrastructure, retrofitting buildings for passive cooling, public cooling stations, heat warnings and worker limits and green spaces. Air-quality alert systems. Paid extreme weather leave. xitter.cf/WHO/status/21129144404…
Extreme heat can endanger lives before birth—and put pregnant women, newborns and young children at increasing health risk. This means higher odds of preterm birth, still birth, low birth weight, and cardiovascular complications during labour.
For 1.5 billion children, heatwaves are becoming more frequent, lasting longer and growing more severe.
WHO, WMO, UNICEF and UNFPA are helping countries make health impacts visible - so they can take action.
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