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.

The UN General Assembly in September, 2021, will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis.They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of these pivotal meetings,we—the editors of health journals worldwide—call for urgent action to keep average
global temperature increases below 1·5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect
health. 

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.