In an unprecedented collaborative move, 220 leading health journals published a joint editorial on climate change, calling on world leaders to take swift action to protect the planet and safeguard public health.
Never have so many journals published the same editorial, according to a press release.
“The risks posed by climate change could dwarf those of any single disease. The COVID-19 pandemic will end, but there is no vaccine for the climate crisis,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, director-general of WHO, said in the release. “The [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate