Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

 Authors

• Abbasi Kamran 1 
 
• Ali Parveen 2 
 
• Virginia Barbour 3 
 
• Thomas Benfield 4 
 
• Kirsten Bibbins Domingo 5 
 
• Stephen Hancocks 6 
 
• Richard Horton 7 
 
• Laurie Laybourn-Langton 8 
 
• Robert Mash 9 
 
• Peush Sahni 10 
 
• Wadeia Mohammad Sharief 11 
 
• Paul Yonga 12 
 
• Chris Zielinski  13

1 Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal

2 Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review

3 Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia

4 Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal

5 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association

6 Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal

7 Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

8 University of Exeter

9 Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

10 Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India

11 Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal

12 Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal

13 University of Winchester

10.21608/AJGH.2023.324023

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are indivisible crises and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.