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Editorial
. 2021 Sep 5:374:n1734.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1734.

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

Lukoye Atwoli  1 , Abdullah H Baqui  2 , Thomas Benfield  3 , Raffaella Bosurgi  4 , Fiona Godlee  5 , Stephen Hancocks  6 , Richard Horton  7 , Laurie Laybourn-Langton  8 , Carlos Augusto Monteiro  9 , Ian Norman  10 , Kirsten Patrick  11 , Nigel Praities  12 , Marcel G M Olde Rikkert  13 , Eric J Rubin  14 , Peush Sahni  15 , Richard Smith  8 , Nicholas J Talley  16 , Sue Turale  17 , Damián Vázquez  18
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Editorial

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

Lukoye Atwoli et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: FG serves on the executive committee for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and is a trustee of the Eden Project. RS is the chair of Patients Know Best, has stock in UnitedHealth Group, has done consultancy work for Oxford Pharmagenesis, and is chair of the Lancet commission on the value of death.

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