On the eve of the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health, linking human health and the climate crisis in indisputable ways.
Here, Landscape News spoke with report leader and head of the WHO Climate Change Unit Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum on how the summit’s negotiations can affect the health of people worldwide.
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