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Health

Climate change will generate new health risks and amplify current health problems. Climate change brings changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events like heat waves and floods which have a direct impact on human health. There will also be indirect effects through the spread of disease bearing insects and changes in water, food and air quality

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