CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING IN SOUTH ASIA: A REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON PLANETARY HEALTH

Abstract

During the twenty-first century, climate alteration has surfaced as a vital environmental and general welfare concern, with Southern Asia noted as one of the most susceptible worldwide epicenters. This overview thoughtfully combines present scientific proof regarding the ecological, societal, medical, and financial ramifications of climate shifts and worldwide heating in the area via a planetary wellness viewpoint. Factual discoveries reliably show a swift increase in typical temperatures, greater regularity and strength of heat surges, disturbances in monsoon patterns, quicker ice melting in the Himalayas, rising sea levels, and an escalating occurrence of severe weather occurrences. These climatic modifications have negatively impacted atmospheric quality, farming output, biodiversity, and clean water supplies. The connected wellness loads comprise heat-linked fatalities, spreading of vector-carried and water-borne sicknesses, breathing ailments connected to smog, and climate-caused malnutrition. Susceptible groups especially youngsters, older people, females, and economically struggling groups encounter unequal perils, intensified by relocation and social imbalances. Financially, climate change jeopardizes regional expansion paths by escalating infrastructure harm, food uncertainty, hardship cycles, and metropolitan strain associated with water shortages and power needs. From a planetary wellness standpoint, the linked deterioration of natural systems and human welfare highlights climate change as a risk amplifier that weakens lasting progress and welfare security in Southern Asia. Although national adjustment blueprints, green power shifts, regional partnership frameworks, and local efforts are appearing, ongoing shortcomings in execution capability, climate funding, combined monitoring, and cross-discipline study continue as major obstacles. Tackling these issues demands fairness-focused mitigation and adaptations approaches based on ecological healing, multi-sector administration, and reinforced planetary wellness incorporation to guarantee robust progress and lasting human welfare in the area.