Fossil fuel funding and the climate crisis


Stringent regulations are needed for fossil-fuel-funded climate change research, similar to those prohibiting tobacco money at medical conferences, says the writer. — TNS

WHEN Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28, unveiled plans for a first-ever Day of Health at the upcoming United Nations-sponsored climate summit, he noted his “resolute” determination to “address the challenges posed to health by climate change.”

The announcement was welcome given the climate-fuelled health crises that now regularly strike our patients, including heat stroke, insect-borne diseases like Lyme and childhood asthma arising from wildfire smoke exposure.

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