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#2020

As we enter this new decade time is running short for human civilization to avoid climate catastrophe. To help avoid this fate, the health sector can and must play an increasingly important role in climate mitigation, resilience, and leadership

The unsatisfactory outcomes of COP25, the UN climate negotiations that took place in Madrid in December, were a clear warning sign that our governments are far from reaching the necessary solutions to the climate crisis, to say the least

The dithering negotiations stood in stark contrast to the horror of climate-fueled crises like the unprecedented fires across Australia and other climate-related disasters across the world.

We are also entering the 2020s with hope. It is a hope embodied by the ambition demanded in waves of global youth-led protests. This year all eyes are on COP26, to be held in Glasgow in November 2020, when all countries will submit their new long-term climate goals
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