Can The World Fix Asian Climate Disaster?

By Douglas McIntyre  •  October 21, 2025
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The WHO calls it among the most significant projects in its history. It plans to address the climate crisis in Asia, where its damage to the population’s health is enormous. The geography covered by the plan included 2.2 billion residents. 

“From rising sea levels threatening island nations to worsening air pollution and extreme heat in rapidly growing cities, the impacts of a changing climate are already claiming lives and livelihoods across the Region,” It says, there are a large number of preventable deaths. It puts that figure at 3.5 million people, killed because of worsening climate change conditions. These include unsafe water, heat, and air pollution. Each of these is preventable, the WHO says. The total deaths annually now match the population of the city of Chicago. 

Millions Of Deaths

The changes needed are a stretch, both logically and financially. They include, the WHO says, helping countries adapt to climate impacts while reducing emissions from the health sector, promoting cleaner air, safer water and more sustainable urban development and advancing nutrition and climate goals through resilient, low-emission food systems. The hurdles are stupendous.

The WHO faces the problems each international organization faces when large numbers of nations need to support it. Each of these nations has to be sold on the benefits of the actions. This has been remarkably hard, particularly for those nations outside the region.

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