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The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), an expert commission has recommended.1Doing so would recognise the βcatastrophic threatβ that a changing climate poses to human health, the commission said.WHO estimates that between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths a year, from undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, and heat stress alone.2But the pan-European commission on climate and health-an independent group convened by WHO-said that current rules andβ¦
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Source: WHO should declare climate crisis a global public health emergency,β¦
