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

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, Paul Yonga¹² and Chris Zielinski¹³

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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, Paul Yonga¹² and Chris Zielinski¹³

1The BMJ, London, UK
2International Nursing Review, England
3Medical Journal of Australia, Brisbane, Australia
4The Danish Medical Journal, Copenhagen, Denmark
5The Journal of the American Medical Association, Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois
6British Dental Journal, London, UK
7The Lancet, London, UK
8University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
9African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa
10National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi, India
11Dubai Medical Journal, Dubai, UAE
12East African Medical Journal, Makhanda, South Africa
13University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

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Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize 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.

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Environmental crisis
Climate crisis
Nature crisis

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Corresponding author: chris.zielinski@ukhealthalliance.org

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