Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health

Med J Aust. 2021 Sep 6;215(5):210-212. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51221.

Authors

Lukoye Atwoli¹, Abdullah H Baqui², Thomas Benfield³, Raffaella Bosurgi⁴, Fiona Godlee⁵, Stephen Hancocks⁶, Richard C Horton⁷, Laurie Laybourn-Langton⁸, Carlos A Monteiro⁹, Ian Norman¹⁰, Kirsten Patrick¹¹, Nigel Praities¹², Marcel Gm Olde Rikkert¹³, Eric J Rubin¹⁴, Peush Sahni¹⁵, Richard Sw Smith⁸, Nicholas J Talley¹⁶, Sue Turale¹⁷, Damián Vázquez¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ East African Medical Journal, Makhanda, South Africa.
² Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition, UK.
³ Danish Medical Journal, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁴ PLOS Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ The BMJ, London, UK.
⁶ British Dental Journal, London, UK.
⁷ The Lancet, London, UK.
⁸ UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, London, UK.
⁹ Revista de Saúde Pública, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ International Journal of Nursing Studies, London, UK.
¹¹ Canadian Medical Association Journal, Ottawa, Canada.
¹² Pharmaceutical Journal, London, UK.
¹³ Dutch Journal of Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ New England Journal of Medicine, Waltham, MA, USA.
¹⁵ National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi, India.
¹⁶ Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁷ International Nursing Review.
¹⁸ Pan American Journal of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA.

PMID: 34459506
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.51221

No abstract available

Keywords: Climate change.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Climate Change*
Developed Countries
Global Health*
Humans
International Cooperation*