Kafkas Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi 2024 , Vol 30 , Issue 1
EDITORIAL: Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency
Kamran ABBASI1, Parveen ALI2, Virginia BARBOUR3, Thomas BENFIELD4, Kirsten BIBBINSDOMINGO5, Stephen HANCOCKS6, Richard HORTON7, Laurie LAYBOURN-LANGTON8, Robert MASH9, Peush SAHNI10, Wadeia MOHAMMAD SHARIEF11, Paul YONGA12, Chris ZIELINSKI13
1Editor-in-Chief, BMJ
2Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review
3Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
4Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal
5Editor-in-Chief, JAMA
6Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal
7Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
8University of Exeter
9Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
10Editor-in- Chief, National Medical Journal of India
11Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal
12Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal
13University of Winchester
DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2023.editorial Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded that: "Only by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem…can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and maximize the beneficial outcomes Keywords : Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency