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Health leaders must act on climate change
Health professionals must act together to urge drastic action on climate change, argue leading experts in The BMJ.
Climate change resulting from carbon dioxide and short lived climate pollutant emissions poses serious threats to human health. It argues that drastic reductions are needed to stabilise the climate below 2°C warming and reduce major threats to health - including from extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and fires and to food production for many millions of people.
The World Health Organization has warned that without adequate mitigation and adaptation ‘climate
change poses unacceptable risks to global public health’.
Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and Professor Sir Andy Haines from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have argued that: “Health professionals have key roles in fighting climate change caused by both short lived climate pollutants and carbon dioxide.”
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