<2>Climate Change Threatens Survival: Will Warnings from Economists and Intelligence Services at Last Move Us to Act?
<3>The Alarming Reality of Climate Change
Despite 31 years of international Conference of the Parties (COP) negotiations to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise—by 1.1% last year alone.WHO reports that this alarming trend is largely due to the failure of policymakers to address the root causes of climate change.
<3>The Lancet Commission’s Warning
Repeated warnings—including that from the 2009 Lancet Commission that climate change was “the greatest global health threat of the 21st Century”Nature—have been ignored, and the predicted escalating impacts on disease are now evident. The Lancet Commission’s warning was a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of climate change on human health.
<3>The Impact of Climate Change on Socioeconomic