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or climate change risk assessments. These plans are A child born today will
now being implemented, with the number of coun-
tries providing climate services to the health sector experience a world
increasing from 55 in 2018 to 70 in 2019 and 109 coun-
tries reporting medium to high implementation of a that is more than four
national health emergency framework.
BOLD INITIATIVES degrees warmer than
Bold new approaches to policy making, research, and
business are needed in order to change course. An the pre-industrial
unprecedented challenge demands an unprecedent-
ed response, and it will take the work of the 7·5 billion average, with climate
people currently alive to ensure that the health of
a child born today is not defined by a changing change impacting human
climate.
Across the world, an average temperature increase
of 1°C from a pre-industrial baseline has already health from infancy
resulted in extreme climatic and environmental
changes, with severe storms and floods, prolonged and adolescence to
heat waves and droughts, new and emerging infec-
tious diseases, and compounding threats to food adulthood and old age
security. Left unabated, climate change will define

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