Climate adaptation and public health in Nigeria

Climate change consist of long term changes in temperature, weather patterns that mostly related to human activities, especially the combustion of fossil fuels. This phenomenon is a risk multiplier affecting every sector, geographies and adding to already pre-existing developmental problems. Specifically, climate change poses special threat to human health and well-being by impacting to the weather condition, ecosystem and societal system. Climate change accelerates the impact of extreme events and also alter the environmental condition indirectly leading to easy transmission of infectious disease, influencing population movement, eroding the foundation of livelihood, wellbeing and physical and mental health.