Planetary Health and the ASEAN Vision 2025 - CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY SECURITY

For ASEAN, the positioning of human health at the heart of sustainability agenda directly supports the people-oriented, inclusive, ENERGY SECURITY sustainable, resilient, and dynamic pillars of the 2025 ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint, and the approach has been adopted and implemented more explicitly by the ASEAN Health Sector. [...] This can be done by the health impacts of climate change in the region” and the mainstreaming human health considerations into the agendas need to “strengthen the capacity of health and relevant of the three pillars of ASEAN (the ASEAN Political Security sectors on health impact assessment and climate change Community, the ASEAN Economic Community, and the adaptation in health.” To achieve this ob. [...] Leow Wen Xuan World Meteorological Organization The Straits Times | 10 June 2024 2024 ST Explains: Will climate change increase the Climate change and the escalation of global likelihood of lightning strikes in Singapore? extreme heat: Assessing and addressing the risks Located near the Equator, Singapore has become a contender for Using World Weather Attribution criteria, the study identified 76. [...] The country has one of the highest lightning strike rates in put billions of people at risk, including in densely populated areas the world, with strikes occasionally harming people and infrastruc- of South and East Asia, the Sahel, and South America. [...] By understanding the direct and indirect costs of disasters, states Nimrat Kaur are able to compare the costs of reducing risks with the resources The New Humanitarian | 11 June 2024 already spent on disasters by addressing the damages (direct costs), as well as on the broader impact in the economy (indirect costs).