Why the WHO must declare climate change a public health emergency

By Nicholas Brink, Director: International, Wits Planetary Health Research, University of the Witwatersrand
Fortunate Machingura, Global Challenges Research Fund Post Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer , University of Manchester
Matthew Chersich, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Robb Butler:, Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science

Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The northern hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The south now faces a summer of heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and droughts. This is driven by decades of climate change, now supercharged by an unprecedented El Niño – the warm phase of the

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