If climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental changes continue unabated, billions of people will face serious health risks by the end of this century resulting from heat stress, flooding, food shortages, infectious diseases, migration and conflicts. Research examining the connection between such environmental changes and human health (the field of study known as Planetary Health) is still in its infancy. In a report published in June 2023, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) reviews existing scientific knowledge in this area and offers a list of questions for researchers to address.
Several scientists from the University of Twente’s ITC faculty are involved in this report. You can read a press statement from KNAW or dive into the full report.
Below you can see the poster presentation that Marloes Penning de Vries, Mariana Belgiu, Caroline Kioko, Nils Tjaden and Justine Blanford also contributed.
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