Pressure mounts for further action on climate change

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-b

BMJ 2005;331:1360 (10 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-b

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Pressure mounts for further action on climate change

Montreal Tony Juniper

The World Health Organization called this week for a "proactive culture of action" to protect the public�s health from the impact of rapid of climate change.

The organisation highlighted how climate change is already affecting human health, including more than 35 000 excess deaths in western Europe caused by the 2003 heat wave and the spread of tick borne encephalitis to greater latitudes. The organisation called for strategies to be developed now to enable societies to adapt as best they could to the effects of rapid climate change ( BMJ2005;331:1283, 3 December).

The thrust of the second week of talks at the United Nations� summit in Montreal has been on what will happen in 2012 when the first round of commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions agreed in 1997�s Kyoto Protocol come to an end. The Protocol came into effect this February to reduce emissions by 2012 . . . [Full text of this article]

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