Jun 23, 2015
Lancet 2015 Climate Health Commission
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The Lancet
- Aims to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide
- Finds that the effects of climate change threaten to undermine the last half-century of gains in development and global health
- Argues that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century
- Concludes that achieving a decarbonised global economy and securing the public health benefits it offers is no longer primarily a technological or economic question – it is now a political one