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Young African student reviews his lessons on the wind turbine in Cameroon (iStock Media Lens King, 2023)
Health Must Be Part and Parcel of Climate Policy

Health Must Be Part and Parcel of Climate Policy

With November’s COP26 fast approaching, this World Health Day message should inspire governments to both take responsibility and to seize the opportunity to commit to ambitious emissions reductions targets, aligned with the Paris Agreement, in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and to make health and equity a central focus of national climate policies.

Healthy people need a healthy planet

Healthy people need a healthy planet

The climate crisis is the greatest health threat of the 21st century and threatens not only biodiversity but also our health. For a long time, this threat has remained abstract - partly because of the way we have been communicating and highlighting the severe impacts...

Our House is on Fire

Our House is on Fire

- by Frances MacGuire - A search for the Amazon on Google will throw up more than a dozen air pollution monitors for sale. This is surprising because, of all the thousands of words that have been written about the Amazon forest fires since mid-August, very few have...