Climate Change and Human Health in Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the impact of climate change on human health in Nigeria. Life expectancy and infant mortality rate were used as proxies for human health while climate change was indexed using carbon emission, forest depletion, nitrous oxide emissions, fossil fuel energy, C02 emission, and greenhouse gas emissions. Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) was employed as the estimation technique. The results show adverse significant effects of climate change on human health in Nigeria. It was concluded that climate change has significant untoward effects on human health in Nigeria. Therefore, policymakers need to design and implement policies to reduce climate damage through economic activities to lessen the harmful effects of climate change on human health in Nigeria.