JUST IN – Scientists want WHO to declare the "climate and nature crisis" a global public health emergency. pic.twitter.com/3jtQKaFxiy
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via DW:
Scientists from across the world on Wednesday collectively called for the UN, world leaders, and health authorities to address climate change and biodiversity loss as one global health emergency.
The report published by more than 200 health journals urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the climate and nature crisis a singular crisis to be tackled together to avoid catastrophe.
‘Climate, biodiversity parts of the same complex problem’
These issues will be separately discussed at upcoming United Nations (UN) conferences — the 28th UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change in Dubai in November and the 16th COP on biodiversity in Turkey in 2024.
The research communities associated with the two COPs are largely separate. However, they concluded in a 2020 joint workshop that there was a need to tackle both together.
“Only by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem … can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and maximize the beneficial outcomes,” they had said then.
Over 200 medical journals unite to urge WHO to declare climate change and biodiversity loss a global health emergency. They emphasize the dire consequences of rising temperatures and extreme weather, stressing their interconnectedness. Authors call for a joint declaration, citing… pic.twitter.com/mPg0UlWlS2
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