Minister of Environment and Energy Thoriq Ibrahim has left for the 3rd Global Conference on Climate Change and Health to be held in Port Louise, Mauritius.
The conference, organized by World Health Organization and UN Partners will be conducted from March 21-22, 2018. Environment Minister Thoriq is accompanied to the conference by senior officials of Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education.
The meeting brings together government representatives from over 40 of the most vulnerable countries and territories in the world, with WHO, other UN partners and technical experts, to advance global action on climate change and health. The event will focus on areas such as: empowerment of health leadership in island nations to integrate health into national climate change planning; evidence production through country profiles of climate change and health among other issues.
The Conference will also constitute a formal launch in each of the regions of the special initiative on Climate Change and Health in Small Island developing States (SIDS), launched by WHO, in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat and the Government of Fiji, at the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UNFCCC in November 2017.