Delivering climate and nature commitments is crucial for health

The UK is one of the world’s most nature depleted countries and at the current rate of decline and slow recovery, the nation will be less biodiverse 10 years from now than it is today.1 This loss of nature, combined with the impacts of climate change, have major implications for human health that need to be taken seriously.A report by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change describes the loss of lives and livelihoods, reduced access to water, food insecurity, the spread of infectious diseases, increases in non-communicable diseases, and reduced capacity to develop new medicines derived from nature as real and growing implications of biodiversity loss.2 These impacts are disproportionately borne by socio-economically disadvantaged groups.While we acknowledge this report is like a tiny fish in an ocean, and that much more work needs to be done to holistically address nature and biodiversity in the context of climate change and…
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