Braithwaite, I;
Stevenson, O;
Watts, N;
(2015)
2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change: Briefing for health policy-makers and health professionals.
UCL Public Policy: London, UK.
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The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change concludes that responding to climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the twenty-first century. Many solutions to climate change offer significant health ‘co-benefits’, reducing healthcare costs for often over-burdened health systems and improving economic productivity. Alongside reducing emissions, climate change adaptation is essential to protect health. Decades-long lag in the climate system means that we are already ‘locked-in’ to many years of warming, and the associated impacts, even if emissions drop sharply. Climate change affects the world’s poorest countries earliest and most severely, despite them being least responsible. Wealthier countries therefore have a responsibility to support poor countries’ responses.
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change: Briefing for health policy-makers and health professionals |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-policy/sites/public-p... |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Research |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469624 |
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