They call for declaring climate change a global health emergency in the face of its advancing impact

Experts call for recognizing and addressing climate change as a global health emergency with the creation of a system similar to the one used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to, for example, deal with pandemics. The objective is to speed up the allocation and deployment of resources and provide an integrated response to global warming and its impacts, which have accelerated in the last decade.
This is the main recommendation of the tenth report The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, led by University College London (UCL) and prepared in collaboration with the WHO. The document, presented in the run-up to the UN climate summit to be held in Turkey (COP31), includes the work of 146 researchers from more than one hundred institutions in some thirty countries.

Health, at the heart of action
The authors call for the WHO to create a new instrument to facilitate a coordinated global response and for governments to put health at the centre of all climate decisions, from emissions targets to climate finance.

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