Climate change and health in Indonesia

Abstract

The population health status of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has improved in recent decades. However, these improvements are vulnerable to climate change. Factors that increase this vulnerability include its poverty, its densely populated (still rapidly growing) urban areas, population growth, and vector-borne and other climate-sensitive diseases. Indonesia is also the world's largest coal exporter and a hotspot of carbon-storing tropical forests and biodiversity, much of which is considered vulnerable. It is essential, for its population's future well-being, that the global North decreases its emissions as fast as possible. Show more