Two suggestions in preparation for the health day that is being introduced at COP28: 1) read this editorial: https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2355 and 2) sign this petition: https://action.ukhealthalliance.org/page/134456/petition/1
Both argue that climate change and the loss of biodiversity should be treated as a single crisis - rather than two, as at present, dividing attention and resources. And both urge consideration of climate change as a global health crisis at the next World Health Assembly.
Best,
Chris Zielinski
Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester
HIFA-Zambia profile: Chris Zielinski held senior positions at the World Health Organization for 15 years, in Africa, WHOs Geneva Headquarters, and India, and earlier in other UN-system organizations working in writing, media, publishing, knowledge management, and intellectual property.
