Abbasi, K., Ali, P., Barbour, V., Benfield, T., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Hancocks, S., Horton, R., Laybourn-Langton, L., Mash, R., Sahni, P., Mohammad Sharief, W., Shehab, A., Yonga, P., Zielinski, C. (2023). Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency. test, 4(4), 1075-1078. doi: 10.21608/mid.2023.320159
Kamran Abbasi; Parveen Ali; Virginia Barbour; Thomas Benfield; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo; Stephen Hancocks; Richard Horton; Laurie Laybourn-Langton; Robert Mash; Peush Sahni; Wadeia Mohammad Sharief; Abdullah Shehab; Paul Yonga; Chris Zielinski. "Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency". test, 4, 4, 2023, 1075-1078. doi: 10.21608/mid.2023.320159
Abbasi, K., Ali, P., Barbour, V., Benfield, T., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Hancocks, S., Horton, R., Laybourn-Langton, L., Mash, R., Sahni, P., Mohammad Sharief, W., Shehab, A., Yonga, P., Zielinski, C. (2023). 'Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency', test, 4(4), pp. 1075-1078. doi: 10.21608/mid.2023.320159
Abbasi, K., Ali, P., Barbour, V., Benfield, T., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Hancocks, S., Horton, R., Laybourn-Langton, L., Mash, R., Sahni, P., Mohammad Sharief, W., Shehab, A., Yonga, P., Zielinski, C. Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency. test, 2023; 4(4): 1075-1078. doi: 10.21608/mid.2023.320159

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Microbes and Infectious Diseases
Article 2, Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 1075-1078    PDF (320.01 K)
Document Type: Editorials
DOI: 10.21608/mid.2023.320159
Authors
Kamran Abbasi1; Parveen Ali2; Virginia Barbour3; Thomas Benfield4; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo5; Stephen Hancocks6; Richard Horton7; Laurie Laybourn-Langton8; Robert Mash9; Peush Sahni10; Wadeia Mohammad Sharief11; Abdullah Shehab12; Paul Yonga13; Chris Zielinski* 14
1BMJ Editor-in-Chief
2International Nursing Review Editor-in-Chief
3Medical Journal of Australia Editor-in-Chief
4Danish Medical Journal Editor-in-Chief
5JAMA Editor-in-Chief
6British Dental Journal Editor-in-Chief
7The Lancet Editor-in-Chief
8University of Exeter
9African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine Editor-in-Chief
10National Medical Journal of India Editor-in-Chief
11Dubai Medical Journal Editor-in-Chief
12New Emirates Medical Journal Editor-in-Chief
13East African Medical Journal Editor-in-Chief
14University of Winchester
Abstract
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. 
               The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded that: “Only by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem…can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and maximize the beneficial outcomes” .
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