Dominican Republic Climate Change

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Position Paper for the World Health Organization The topics designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) are as follows: Mitigating the Public Health Effects of Climate Change; Ensuring Access to Clean and Safe Water; and Improving Coordination of Health Services in Outbreaks and Emergencies. The Dominican Republic (DR) considers these issues to be matters of great importance for the sake of its own people and for those of similar developing nations; therefore The Dominican Republic is eager to begin collaborating with its global peers in confronting these concerns in the forthcoming conference. I. Mitigating the Public Health Effects of Climate Change Climate change in the modern era is a natural phenomenon that has been both hastened …show more content…

Also worthy of support, resolution WHA 61.19 of the sixty-second WHA of 2009 calls states to support health systems of threatened countries in identifying their states’ susceptibility to climate change. The Dominican Republic acknowledges and highlights central message number three brought up during the World Health Organization Conference on Health and Climate of August 2014 which clearly established climate change as a particularly harmful impetus on the impoverished and the socially destitute; a populace who currently consists nearly 40 percent of DR’s total population. Admission of foreign programs, such as the Ciudades Líderes en Iniciativas y Metas de Adaptación created by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has already helped The Dominican Republican ease its most impoverished communities and has also allowed the state to prepare aiding the rest of its people by creating and instilling stalwart measures of keeping local municipals resilient to the impeding effects that climate change will bring to the Hispaniola island in the years to …show more content…

The goal of JMP and the DR is to work alongside Member States in identifying the absence of WASH in developing states and providing means of addressing said absence. Through the JMP, nations can locate venerable areas within their region and begin improving the local infrastructure so as to secure a better lifestyle for the women and children who reside there. The Dominican Republic believes this is the first necessary step in a long line of steps to begin providing the global deprived better means of accessing cleaner, safer and (most importantly) consumable water. III. Improving Coordination of Health Services in Outbreaks and

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