Blue and Green: The threat climate change poses to human health is so great it should be considered a medical emergency and has the potential to undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a UCL-led Commission.
The research, which has been published in the Lancet, argues that the potentially catastrophic risk to human health rising temperatures presents has previously been underestimated. It adds that while the technologies and finance to tackle the issue can be...