A further declaration at COP28 was the Joint Statement on Climate, Nature and People released by the Climate Change COP28 president (UAE) and the Biodiversity COP15 president (China) which recognised that climate change and biodiversity loss are mutually reinforcing each other.
This innovative statement follows on an editorial with the title “Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency” developed by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and now published by over 300 journals around the world. The Joint Statement promotes the editorial’s first conclusion, that climate change and biodiversity loss are a single crisis. We are expecting that the World Health Organization will address the second conclusion of the editorial – that this is a global health emergency – at the next World Health Assembly in May 2024.
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Chris
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme, which supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. He is the elected Vice President (and President-in-Waiting) of the World Association of Medical Editors. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. He served on WHO's Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. He also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Chris has been a director of the UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). chris AT chriszielinski.com. His publications are at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Zielinski and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue
