This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child. Its Authors Hope Congress Will Listen. November 18, 2019

Mother Jones

On Monday, some of the authors of the annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, a massive report compiled by 120 health and climate experts from around the world on the relationship between climate change and global health, gathered in the Russell Senate office building. They called on policy makers and Congress to act on the report’s findings, which concludes that healthcare providers are in a unique position to fight climate change and should be empowered to do so.

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