World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns â and climate health impacts are âmother of all injusticesâ
Exclusive: Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequalityCountries are being âheld hostageâ by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned, describing the health impacts of climate change as âthe mother of all injusticesâ.Christiana Figueres, an international climate negotiator who helped deliver the Paris agreement signed in 2016, made the comments as she was announced on Wednesday as co-chair of a Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality. Continue reading...
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