Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health; Wealthy Nations Must Do Much More, Much Faster

Atwoli, Lukoye; Baqui, Abdullah H.; Benfield, Thomas; Bosurgi, Raffaella; Godlee, Fiona; Hancocks, Stephen; Horton, Richard; Laybourn-Langton, Laurie; Monteiro, Carlos Augusto; Norman, Ian; Patrick, Kirsten; Praities, Nigel; Rikkert, Marcel GM Olde; Rubin, Eric J.; Sahni, Peush; Smith, Richard; Talley, Nicholas J.; Turale, Sue; Vázquez, Damián

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2021.108

Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health; Wealthy Nations Must Do Much More, Much Faster

Document Type : Editorial

Authors

Lukoye Atwoli ¹

Abdullah H. Baqui ²

Thomas Benfield ³

Raffaella Bosurgi ⁴

Fiona Godlee ⁵

Stephen Hancocks ⁶

Richard Horton ⁷

Laurie Laybourn-Langton ⁸

Carlos Augusto Monteiro ⁹

Ian Norman ¹⁰

Kirsten Patrick ¹¹

Nigel Praities ¹²

Marcel GM Olde Rikkert ¹³

Eric J. Rubin ¹⁴

Peush Sahni ¹⁵

Richard Smith ¹⁶

Nicholas J. Talley ¹⁷

Sue Turale ¹⁸

Damián Vázquez ¹⁹

¹ Editor in Chief, East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, Kenya

² Editor in Chief, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Baltimore, MD, USA

³ Editor in Chief, Danish Medical Journal, Copenhagen, Denmark

⁴ Editor in Chief, PLOS Medicine, Cambridge, UK

⁵ Editor in Chief, The BMJ, London, UK

⁶ Editor in Chief, British Dental Journal, London, UK

⁷ Editor in Chief, The Lancet, London, UK

⁸ Senior Adviser, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, London, UK

⁹ Editor in Chief, Revista de Saúde Pública, São Paulo, Brazil

¹⁰ Editor in Chief, International Journal of Nursing Studies, London, UK

¹¹ Interim Editor in Chief, CMAJ, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹² Executive Editor, Pharmaceutical Journal, London, UK

¹³ Editor in Chief, Dutch Journal of Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

¹⁴ Editor in Chief, NEJM, Boston, MA, USA

¹⁵ Editor in Chief, National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi, India

¹⁶ Chair, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, London, UK

¹⁷ Editor in Chief, Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia

¹⁸ Editor in Chief, International Nursing Review, Geneva, Switzerland

¹⁹ Editor in Chief, Pan American Journal of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA

10.34172/ijhpm.2021.108

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Note: This editorial is being published simultaneously in many international journals. Please see the full list here: https://www.bmj.com/content/full-list-authors-and-signatories-climate-emergency-editorialseptember-2021.

Keywords

Climate Change

Public Health

Global Warming/prevention & Control

Ecological and Environmental Phenomena

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