Climate crisis elevated to the level of a global health emergency: scientists make an unprecedented appeal to the WHO

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The scientific community is urging the World Health Organization to recognize the climate crisis as a global health emergency. The request aims to place the impacts of global warming on the same level of international alert as major epidemics.

Calls are growing within the scientific community to declare the climate crisis a global health emergency.

For decades, the climate debate has focused primarily on protecting ecosystems, reducing emissions, and advancing the energy transition. However, there is growing scientific consensus that climate change is, above all, a direct threat to human health.

Prolonged droughts, increasingly intense heat waves, devastating floods, wildfires, and the spread of vector-borne diseases are already affecting millions of people around the world.

Against this backdrop, a group of scientists from the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health has made an unprecedented request: that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declare the climate crisis a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), as it has done for Ebola, Zika, swine flu, and COVID-19.

An Unprecedented Call to the WHO

The request comes at a particularly significant time. In recent