Global warming also a health care factor
SCMP
Sian Griffiths
The author is director of School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
From December 7, the world leaders and their advisers will be in Copenhagen attending the UN conference on climate change and global warming. Their aim is to agree on a new international deal to tackle climate change, which should come into force in 2013 and replace the Kyoto protocol. Images of rapidly melting glaciers and global reports of increasingly extreme weather conditions underline the urgency of the talks…
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