MORE THAN 220 HEALTH JOURNA CALL FOR URGEN ACTION ON CLIMATE CRISIS

Global warmin already affecting people’s he so much that emergency ac on the climate crisis canno put on hold while the w deals with the Covid-19 demic, medical journals ac the globe warned on Mond

“Health is already b harmed by global tempera increases and the destructio the natural world,” read an torial published in more t 220 leading journals ahea the COP26 climate summ November.

Since the pre-industrial temperatures have risen aro 1.1 degrees Celsius.

The editorial, written by editors-in-chief of over a do journals including the Lan the East African Medical J nal, Brazil’s Revista de Sa Publica and the Internati Nursing Review, said this caused a plethora of he problems. “In the past 20 y heat-related mortality am people older than 65 years increased by more than 50 cent,” it read.

“Higher temperatures h brought increased dehydra and renal function loss, der tological malignancies, trop infections, adverse me health outcomes, pregna complications, allergies, cardiovascular and pulmo morbidity and mortality.”

It also pointed to the dec in agricultural product “hampering efforts to red undernutrition”.

These effects, which hit t most vulnerable like minori children and poorer comm ties hardest, are just the be ning, it warned.

As things stand, gl warming could reach +1.5° pre-industrial levels aro 2030, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on mate Change.

And that, along with the tinued loss of biodiversity, “catastrophic harm to he that will be impossibl reverse,” the editorial warn

In a statement ahead of publication of the edito WHO chief Tedros Adha Ghebreyesus said, “The r posed by climate change c dwarf those of any single ease. The Covid-19 pande will end, but there is no vac for the climate crisis.”