Use Case Description
Health is a cross-cutting issue in climate-driven risk assessments, as climate change negatively impacts critical sectors such as agriculture, water resources, and landscape management. Climate change directly influences the spread of infectious diseases by increasing their intensity, duration, and geographic range. Such pattern dynamics can add significant pressure on healthcare systems, particularly where prevention or financial resources are lacking, limiting the capacity to manage growing numbers of illnesses and outbreaks. Indirectly, climate change also affects access to food and clean water by increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, storms, strong winds, and sea level rise. According to recent World Bank data, a warmer climate could lead to at least 21 million additional deaths by 2050 from just five climate-sensitive health risks: extreme heat, stunting, diarrhoea, malaria, and dengue. Satellite (Earth Observation) data plays a key role in building towards more resilient healthcare systems by supporting adaptive infrastructure planning and enabling timely responses to emerging climate threats.