Originally published by The Lancet on September 7th, 2024.
The 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) was a turning point for recognising climate change as a human health emergency. There was a dedicated health day for the first time ever and an announcement of a Declaration on Climate and Health signed by over 150 countries.1,2 Then, earlier this year during the 77th World Health Assembly, member states adopted a resolution on climate and health and placed responding to climate change as the first strategic objective in WHO's fourteenth General Programme of Work.