Biomolecules & Biomedicine (Apr 2022)

Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health

  • Lukoye Atwoli,
  • Abdullah H. Baqui,
  • Thomas Benfield,
  • Raffaella Bosurgi,
  • Fiona Godlee,
  • Stephen Hancocks,
  • Richard Horton,
  • Laurie Laybourn-Langton,
  • Carlos Augusto Monteiro,
  • Ian Norman,
  • Kirsten Patrick,
  • Nigel Praities,
  • Marcel Olde Rikkert,
  • Eric J. Rubin,
  • Peush Sahni,
  • Richard Smith,
  • Nicholas J Talley,
  • Sue Turale,
  • Damián Vázquez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17305/bjbms.2021.6411
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 2

Abstract

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The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we—the editors of health journals worldwide—call for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health. Read more in PDF.

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