Global health leaders pen open letter to ‘those with the power to prevent lives being lost to the climate crisis’
Climate change is the defining health challenge of our time. Research suggests there will be an additional 14.5 million deaths...
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Alan Dangour on reframing climate change as a health crisis
Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, is working to highlight the profound links between climate change...
Health systems response to climate change adaptation: a scoping review of global evidence | BMC Public Health
Findings are presented in themes based on the research questions.Health system response to climate changeForty-six (46) included studies with varied...
Strategic Roundtable unites global health leaders to address climate change and health impacts
Health leaders and experts from around the globe came together for a Strategic Roundtable to address the critical intersection of...
Climate crisis creates a health crisis, WHO reports
GENEVA — Scientific evidence documented in a series of articles presented by the World Health Organization this week highlights the...
World News in Brief: UN staff detained in Yemen, cyclone threat for Haiti, rights chief Lao PDR, climate change
“We are very concerned about these developments, and we are actively seeking clarification from the Houthi de facto authorities regarding...
Climate Crisis Is Generating Global Health Crisis, UN Agency Says
geneva — Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress toward better health and well-being, particularly in the most vulnerable...
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize that climate change and...
Climate crisis could cause ‘catastrophic harm’ to human health, 200-plus medical journals warn
More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate...
