Climate Change, Public Health and Human Rights

Benjamin Mason Meier^{1

2}, Flavia Bustreo^{3

4}, Lawrence O Gostin²

Affiliations

¹ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
² O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
³ Fondation Botnar, 4052 Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

Editorial

Benjamin Mason Meier et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 22;19(21):13744.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph192113744.

Benjamin Mason Meier^{1

2}, Flavia Bustreo^{3

4}, Lawrence O Gostin²

¹ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
² O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
³ Fondation Botnar, 4052 Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Climate change poses a cataclysmic threat to public health and human rights [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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