Climate Change - How It Affects People's Health

Ritubhar Dvaj has worked with communities across regions affected by climate change events. She says a major climate change event has two effects: It forces people to move and it affects their physical and mental health. In India, especially we have this huge MG&R EGS program that guarantees 100 days of wage employment. That's the biggest public works based social protection program globally. But even that program failed to provide support to communities. And then we saw that in Palama where there was no relief, no response, child trafficking had become rampant. Young women and girls, they were forced into prostitution and trafficking. These people have done nothing to cause climate change and they are facing the