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Doctors declare climate change a public health emergency

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date February 10, 2020

The UK’s oldest medical trade union has sent an open letter to the four Labour party leadership contenders, demanding they recognise climate change as a public health emergency. Doctors in Unite said that flooding, heatwaves, tropical diseases and toxic air pollution are already putting the public’s health at risk. The union’s chair Dr Jackie Applebee […]

Tags climate emergency, COP26, Doctors in Unite, labour leadership, public health