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. 2020 Mar 30:368:m797.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m797.

WHO should declare climate change a public health emergency

Andrew Harmer  1 , Ben Eder  2 , Sophie Gepp  3 , Anja Leetz  4 , Remco van de Pas  5
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WHO should declare climate change a public health emergency

Andrew Harmer et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Rapid and potentially irreversible climate change poses a direct threat to global public health. Andrew Harmer and colleagues argue that WHO should recognise this in the same way as global threats from specific diseases

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