Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat
- Abstract
An international alliance of doctors, nurses and other health professionals concerned about the impacts of climate change is urging governments to reach a strong agreement at the ongoing United Nations’ climate negotiations in Paris.Declarations of a global medical consensus on climate change signed by 1,700 health organizations, 8,200 hospitals and health facilities and 13 million health professionals were released Saturday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- Inside Climate News
- Date
- December 9, 2015
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Respiratory disease
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Air pollution
- Emission Sources
- Conventional energy Transportation Energy Conventional
- Fossil Fuel
- Coal
- Solutions
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction Public health/health sector response
- Other
- Advocacy