Building Economic Resilience to the Health Impacts of Climate Change 2025

Unique role of the focus sectors FIGURE 4 Climate impact on: Worker health Consumer health Economic risk Economic opportunity1Sector’s role in solution Economic sectors Food and agriculture Built environment Health and healthcare Insurance Impact Low HighDeliver nutrition to global populations and improve workforce health. Create health- protective environments and improve workforce health. Provide preventative and reactive healthcare to directly improve population health. Enable access to healthcare to indirectly improve population health. Note: 1. Opportunity for a sector refers to its potential to generate economic value while contributing to meeting a social need. Potential changes in worker availability have been projected from 2025 to 2050 across the food and agriculture, built environment, and health and healthcare sectors, focusing on seven climate- related health conditions (heat-related disease and mortality, dengue, malaria, diarrheal diseases, nutritional deficiencies/malnutrition, ozone-related illness and death, and air pollution from ozone and particulate matter). The insurance sector was excluded from this specific analysis because its workforce has minimal direct exposure to climate- health risks. Health and economic impacts at the sector level are calculated using each sector’s share of employment, which likely understates the true burden of climate-health impacts for these focus sectors, in which workers face disproportionate exposure to climate-health risks. The full methodology is included in the Annex. 11 Building Economic Resilience to the Health Impacts of Climate Change