Editorial
https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2021.62.429
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster
Lukoye Atwoli
; editor in chief, East African Medical Journal
Abdullah H. Baqui
; editor in chief, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Thomas Benfield
; editor in chief, Danish Medical Journal
Raffaella Bosurgi
; editor in chief, PLOS Medicine
Fiona Godlee
; editor in chief, The BMJ
Stephen Hancocks
; editor in chief, British Dental Journal
Richard Horton
; editor in chief, The Lancet
Laurie Laybourn-Langton
; senior adviser, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
Carlos Augusto Monteiro
; editor in chief, Revista de Saúde Pública
Ian Norman
; editor in chief, International Journal of Nursing Studies
Kirsten Patrick
; interim editor in chief, CMAJ
Nigel Praities
; executive editor, Pharmaceutical Journal
Marcel GM Olde Rikkert
; editor in chief, Dutch Journal of Medicine
Eric J. Rubin
; editor in chief, NEJM
Peush Sahni
; editor in chief, National Medical Journal of India
Richard Smith
; chair, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
Nick Talley
; editor in chief, Medical Journal of Australia
Sue Turale
; editor in chief, International Nursing Review
Damián Vázquez
; editor in chief, Pan American Journal of Public Health.
Abstract
The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring
countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They
will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming,
China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow,
UK. Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we—the editors of
health journals worldwide—call for urgent action to keep
average global temperature increases below 1.5 °C, halt
the destruction of nature, and protect health.
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Publication date:
21.10.2021.
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