By Nkhensani Chauke
The Health Department is joining the rest of the globeThe Health Department is joining the rest of the globe in commemorating World Environmental Health Day on Thursday.
The aim of the day is to raise awareness about environmental health issues and promote actions to improve and protect the environment for the wellbeing of all living creatures, including humans.
The department said that environmental health played a critical role in addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation, and reducing the risk of disasters to create resilient and sustainable communities.
“Climate change and disaster risks are fundamental threats to sustainable development, the living and health conditions for all humans on the globe and the reduction of poverty,” the department said in a statement.
It believes that the negative impacts threaten to roll back decades of gains.
“Building resilient and sustainable communities means addressing both climate change and disaster risks, and integrating these risks, as well as potential opportunities, into development planning and budgeting,” the department said.
Political leaders and environmental health experts will attend an event held by the Health Department in Port Edward in the Eastern Cape.
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