JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (Sep 2021)

#HealthyClimate: 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 GM Olde Rikkert,
  • Eric J Rubin,
  • Peush Sahni,
  • Richard Smith,
  • Nick Talley,
  • Sue Turale,
  • Damian Vazquez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2196/32958
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 9
p. e32958

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.