“For a very long time, policy makers have been hearing the same message about climate change, about biodiversity, about polar bears, [and] about the environment from the same voices,” said Nick Watts, coordinator of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, which organized the declarations’ release.
“Increasingly we’ve started to hear in the last two years in the lead-up to Paris from non-traditional, usually very conservative but very powerful voices; from the business community, from the faith community, and from the health and medical community.”