Published 25 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4952
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4952

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Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

What’s good for the climate is good for health

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Policies for health, development, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions should be integrated—that is the central message from an important series of papers "Public health impacts of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" published in the Lancet this week.^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

In the first major study of its kind, the Climate Change Mitigation and Public Health Task Force, an international team of 55 researchers from nine countries chaired by Professor Sir Andy Haines, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has modelled the health effects of different policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in high and low income countries. The Climate and Health Council, sponsored by the BMJ, was instrumental in making the case for the programme of work. The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust with a consortium of other funders.

The serious and immediate threat to human health from the unstable climate is increasingly evident. . . . [Full text of this article]

¹ 52 Brushfield Way, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey GU21 2TQ, ² Indian Institute of Public Health, Vengalrao Nagar, Hyderabad 500038, India

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