ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE 2025
Climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss are impacting human health and well-being at an accelerating rate, increasing death, disability, loss of productivity and poverty. These changes exacerbate the risk of exposure to a myriad of climate sensitive-diseases and health conditions. Often these causes interact to amplify the impact on health. More heat and humidity increase the dangers from air pollution. More extreme rainfall and degraded wetlands combine to raise the risk of flooding which in turn leads to the spread of diseases, loss of livelihoods and damage to critical health infrastructure.
The Asian Infrastructure Finance 2025: Infrastructure for Planetary Health report aims to invest in infrastructure for development while at the same time enhancing the health of people and the planet.
Report Contents
- Foreword by Jin Liqun, AIIB President and Chair of the Board of Directors
- Preface by Erik Berglof, AIIB Chief Economist
- Executive Summary
- Addressing Air Pollution: Infrastructure, Policies and Health Impacts
- In Deep Water: Climate Change Impacts on Water Systems and Human Health
- Heat-related Health Stress and Infrastructure: Evidence from South and Southeast Asia
- Chemical Hazard and Health: Lead – an Old Poison with New Challenges
- The Grand Pandemic
- Nature and Human Health
- One Health Approach to Zoonotic Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities
- Cross-country Estimates of Health Burdens on the Labor Forcem
- Concluding Remarks
