Politicians argue action is critical as fossil fuel-related deaths are rising across Europe
Climate change should now be treated as a global health emergency comparable to Ebola and mpox, European ministers and health officials have told the WHO.
The Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health, an independent group of experts convened by former Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge, urged governments to speed the shift to clean renewables to help avert millions of deaths in a new report.
The group said the WHO should declare the climate crisis a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC), a high-level alert most recently activated for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as for mpox.
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