Why doctors travelled to COP27

The annual UN climate change conference gathers politicians and experts from hundreds of countries in an attempt to reach agreement in tackling the climate emergency.1 But despite an increasing focus on health at the event—the World Health Organization had its own large presence this year—health does not have a dedicated topic area in the official negotiations, in the way areas such as agriculture and adaptation do.Melissa Jiménez Gómez-Tagle, a planetary health scientist who travelled to Egypt this year with the Mexican delegation, says her aim was to make sure “that health was present, was at the core of the negotiations.”The UK Youth Climate Coalition had a health representative who analysed the text to be agreed at COP to see if specific health related wording could be added to each of the policy areas. George Carrow-Jones, a medical student who was part of the coalition, says that where possible representatives from…
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