forces around the world, from the Pentagon uS legislation requires the uS military to to the uK military, have identified climate assess the risks of climate change for current change as a significant threat to national and future missions, and the uK ministry security that requires immediate action by of defence appointed a Climate and energy governments and military institutions alike. [...] We will need to meet the challenge how climate change poses significant of climate change in a context of existing risks for human and societal well-being by regional, political and ethnic tensions, an changing the availability of food and water, ever-increasingly globalised society, and and through the increase in frequency, one that is becoming more interconnected intensity and severity of extre. [...] Observed Changes in Climate in the Asia-Pacific Region Across most of Asia, average annual regional increases in sea-level vary around temperature has increased over the globe, and large portions of Asia and the past century and the frequency the Pacific have experienced increases in of heatwaves has increased since sea-level that have been much higher than the middle of the 20th century. [...] human and societal well-being, The focus of this chapter is on the as climate change will affect the impacts of climate change for food availability of food and water and and water availability as well as for undermine human health. [...] The present the intensity of algal blooms, some of which concentration of aerosols, mostly due to the produce toxins that can damage the health use of wood in cooking and the burning of of humans, domestic animals and livestock fossil fuels for energy and transport, can (Jimenez 2014; nSW Government 2015).
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