Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health

People walks past flags of the COP2=89 participating countries as they arrive at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Sunday, December 3, 2023. - AFP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): With Planet Earth running a fever, UN climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health.

Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit moved past two days of lofty rhetoric and calls for unity from top leaders to concerns on health issues like the deaths of at least 7 million people globally from air pollution each year and the spread of diseases like cholera and malaria as global warming upends weather systems.