Biodiversité

Joint action is essential for planetary and human health

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.

The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake.

Climate change really matters to most people. On average, across all markets, around 69% of respondents stated that they consider climate change to be an extremely or very serious problem.

In this chapter we explore in detail the different sources people use to learn more about climate change and how this is affected by age, education, and political affiliation. We also look at the extent to which different groups value the media’s coverage of this complex subject and ask how it could be improved. Our analysis covers 40 markets, from Sweden to Kenya to the Philippines.

La démarche est qualifiée de « sans précédent ».Plus de 200 revues de santé viennent de publier un seul et même éditorial. Il appelle les dirigeants du monde à reconnaître le lien étroit entre la crise climatique et la crise de la biodiversité. Il affirme aussi que ces deux crises constituent une urgence sanitaire mondiale immédiate qui exige une réponse unifiée et robuste.