This Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change maps out the impacts of climate change, and suggests necessary policy responses.

It argues that the effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health, but that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century. The Commission highlights that achieving a decarbonised global economy and securing the public health benefits it offers is no longer primarily a technical or economic question—it is now a political one. It argues that the health community has a vital part to play in accelerating progress to tackle climate change.

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