It will be published ahead of the UN conference COP26 on climate change in Glasgow in November – the largest climate summit since Paris in 2015.
“Ahead of these crucial meetings, we – editors of magazines around the world – urge you to take immediate action to keep the average global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees, stop the destruction of nature and protect your health,” the leader said.
The editors argue that both heat death, dehydration, loss of kidney function, skin cancer, mental problems, allergies and heart and lung disease can be caused by the climate crisis.
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Fear catastrophic damage
“Science is unequivocal – a global increase of over 1.5 degrees above the average in pre-industrial times and the loss of biological diversity, can lead to catastrophic damage to health that will be impossible to reverse,” it added.
According to the renowned medical journal British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is unique that so many journals come together in a joint appeal, showing the “severity of climate change that the world is now facing.”
Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal and one of the co-authors of the editorial, says the following:
“Health experts have been at the forefront of the covid-19 crisis, and they are united in the warning that exceeding the 1.5-degree target and allowing the continuation of destruction of nature will lead to the next, far more deadly crisis,” she said. The Guardian.
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“The biggest threat”
The Paris Agreement aims to keep global warming well below 2.0 degrees and try to limit it to 1.5 degrees. The editorial states that “the biggest threat to global public health is the world leader who continues to fail to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees”.
They call for richer nations to act faster and do more to support countries already affected by climate change.
“2021 must be the year the world changes course – our health depends on it,” says the leader.
The temperature of the earth has already increased by around 1.2 degrees since pre-industrial times. To reach the goal of 2 degrees, emissions must be cut by 45 percent by the end of the decade we are in now compared to 2010, according to the UN Climate Panel IPCC. The Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015 by 196 nations.
