Report of the WHO South-East Asia Regional meeting on nutrition and climate change

Overview

Climate change undermine global food systems, increases food and nutrition insecurity and and exacerbates malnutrition in vulnerable populations. In the next decade, climate change is likely to reverse many of the gains made in improving nutrition of populations, unless countries urgently implement transformative policies that address nutrition and climate change.

While the Regional Resolution on addressing the double burden of malnutrition urges countries to prioritize actions to malnutrition, climate change requires multi-sectoral adaptation actions across sectors and systems: health, agriculture and food systems, social protection, water and sanitation systems, industry and others. This Regional workshop brought key stakeholders from nutrition and climate change together to discuss and prioritize actions to mainstream nutrition considerations in the context of climate change actions.