(HealthDay)—Local weather change is the “single greatest well being menace dealing with humanity,” and governments should “act with urgency” to deal with the disaster, a World Well being Group particular report warns.

Prematurely of a United Nations local weather change summit in early November, teams representing 45 million nurses, docs, and well being professionals worldwide signed an open letter urging motion on the local weather disaster, CNN reported.

Each the WHO report and the open letter define main local weather points already affecting public well being. They embody: air air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that causes local weather change; extra intense warmth waves, floods, and storms; excessive climate worsening meals insecurity and starvation; and rising sea ranges wrecking properties and livelihoods.

“As well being professionals and well being employees, we acknowledge our moral obligation to talk out about this quickly rising disaster that may very well be way more catastrophic and enduring than the COVID-19 pandemic,” the letter states. “These folks and nations who’ve benefited most from the actions that induced the local weather disaster, particularly fossil gasoline extraction and use, have an amazing accountability to do the whole lot attainable to assist those that at the moment are most in danger.”

“Defending well being requires motion properly past the well being sector, in vitality, transport, nature, meals techniques, finance and extra,” WHO Director-Normal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote within the report’s foreword, CNN reported. “The well being arguments for speedy local weather motion have by no means been clearer. I hope this report can information policymakers and practitioners from throughout sectors and internationally to implement the transformative adjustments wanted.”

He stated the report contains 10 suggestions that “present concrete examples of interventions that, with help, will be scaled up quickly to safeguard our well being and our local weather.” They embody creating climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable well being techniques and sustainable meals manufacturing in addition to designing sustainable cities and transportation techniques, CNN reported.