90% of Italians feel that climate change is a severe threat to the entire globe, particularly to individual health. This is one of the findings from Ipsos' study for Amref Italia into Italians' perceptions of climate change and its impact on health in Africa and throughout the world. The third edition of the survey "Africa and health: the opinion of Italians" was carried out in anticipation of the first Health Day within Cop28 (Dubai, Sunday 3 December), which saw the participation of Health Ministers from all over the world to discuss the issue of global health in relation to climate change, and at which Amref was present as a spokesperson for the African continent's cases. According to respondents, the expression of climate change that would have the greatest impact on our world is a rise in heat waves and increasing temperatures (46%); in Italy last year, the same worry was 12 percentage points lower. In second place – among the threats to the planet – is the increase in drought and the decrease in water availability (44%), followed by the decrease in food availability due to the impacts on agriculture (37%) and the increase in floods (33%).
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