Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Kamran, Abbasi; Parveen, Ali; Barbour, Virginia; Benfield, Thomas; Domingo, Kirsten Bibbins; Hancocks, Stephen; Horton, Richard; Laybourn-Langton, Laurie; Mash, Robert; Sahni, Peush; Sharief, Wadeia Mohammad; Yonga, Paul; Zielinski, Chris

doi:10.21608/ajgh.2023.324023

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Document Type : Editorials

Authors

¹ Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal

² Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review

³ Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia

⁴ Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal

⁵ Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association

⁶ Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal

⁷ Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

⁸ University of Exeter

⁹ Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

¹⁰ Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India

¹¹ Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal

¹² Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal

¹³ University of Winchester

10.21608/ajgh.2023.324023

Abstract

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are indivisible crises and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.

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