Elevating health in climate change - World Health Organization
Elevating health in climate change
Elevating health in climate change 6 July 2023 | video WHO Team Centre for Environment & Health (BON), Living & Working Environments (LWE), Multisectoral Partnerships for Environment & Health (MPE), Water & Climate (WAC), WHO Europe
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.