Autores: 600 organizações representando 46 milhões de trabalhadores da saúde e 3400 indivíduos de 102 países, 2021

Healthy Climate Prescription: An urgent call for climate action from the health community

The 2021 United Nations climate negotiations in Glasgow (COP26) were a critical moment and opportunity to put the world on a path that protects people from catastrophic climate change.

Over 600 organizations representing over 46 million health workers, together with over 3,400 individuals from 102 different countries, signed the open letter to national leaders and country delegations, calling for real action to address the climate crisis by limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and to make human health and equity central to all climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.

Health professionals from around the world delivered the Prescription message along with this special video to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

However, COP26 fell far short of committing to actions that would truly arrest the warming of the planet. And in 2022 the Health Community must continue to prescribe the desperately needed course of treatment for the greatest health emergency humanity faces – the climate crisis.