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 recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe...
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Zagazig University, Faculty of Medicine
2023-11-01
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| author | Kamran Abbasi Parveen Ali Virginia Barbour Thomas Benfield Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Stephen Hancocks Richard Horton Laurie Laybourn-Langton Robert Mash Peush Sahni Wadeia Mohammad Sharief Abdullah Shehab Paul Yonga Chris Zielinski |
| author_facet | Kamran Abbasi Parveen Ali Virginia Barbour Thomas Benfield Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Stephen Hancocks Richard Horton Laurie Laybourn-Langton Robert Mash Peush Sahni Wadeia Mohammad Sharief Abdullah Shehab Paul Yonga Chris Zielinski |
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| description | Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded that: “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” . |
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| spelling | doaj.art-439da7b591a74d978e5811f7d9f18b7b2023-11-08T19:05:38ZengZagazig University, Faculty of MedicineMicrobes and Infectious Diseases2682-41322682-41402023-11-01441075107810.21608/mid.2023.320159320159Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergencyKamran Abbasi0Parveen Ali1Virginia Barbour2Thomas Benfield3Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo4Stephen Hancocks5Richard Horton6Laurie Laybourn-Langton7Robert Mash8Peush Sahni9Wadeia Mohammad Sharief10Abdullah Shehab11Paul Yonga12Chris Zielinski13BMJ Editor-in-ChiefInternational Nursing Review Editor-in-ChiefMedical Journal of Australia Editor-in-ChiefDanish Medical Journal Editor-in-ChiefJAMA Editor-in-ChiefBritish Dental Journal Editor-in-ChiefThe Lancet Editor-in-ChiefUniversity of ExeterAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine Editor-in-ChiefNational Medical Journal of India Editor-in-ChiefDubai Medical Journal Editor-in-ChiefNew Emirates Medical Journal Editor-in-ChiefEast African Medical Journal Editor-in-ChiefUniversity of WinchesterOver 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded that: “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” .https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/article_320159_6a55831f90ca8aa03ea14c0852d4aa4c.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Kamran Abbasi Parveen Ali Virginia Barbour Thomas Benfield Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Stephen Hancocks Richard Horton Laurie Laybourn-Langton Robert Mash Peush Sahni Wadeia Mohammad Sharief Abdullah Shehab Paul Yonga Chris Zielinski Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency Microbes and Infectious Diseases |
| title | Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
| title_full | Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
| title_fullStr | Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
| title_short | Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
| title_sort | time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency |
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