Global | “Reaching a tipping point”: Climate a key issue at World Health Assembly
Almost six months after she helped broker a unanimous agreement among 195 governments in Paris, Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came to the World Health Assembly to urge ministers of health to prioritize climate change. Figueres eloquently argued that “working on climate change is [our] best prevention strategy” and that ministers need to use “the health microphone… [to] translate what climate change actually means for real people.”
In his blog post, Health Care Without Harm’s Josh Karliner discusses how climate …
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