Lo we know: climate warming is already underway and is worsening air pollution, the spread of infectious diseases, food and water insecurity, and extreme weather events.
If the Paris objectives were achieved (contain the increase in global average temperature well below the 2°C threshold), more than a million lives a year would be saved around the world by 2050. But we are very, very far away.
What can – and should – the healthcare sector do? Promote decarbonization (health systems contribute 4-6 percent of global emissions) and public health interventions. Any examples? Cleaner air and energy to avoid cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, tumors and pregnancy pathologies.
Professor Paolo Veronesi, President of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation and Director of the Surgical Senology Division of the IEO
A healthy and low environmental impact diet with less meat and dairy products derived from intensive farming, and more plant-based foods. The scientific community has been speaking with a unanimous voice on these issues for years, the path is clear. From here on out, every missed action becomes negligence for which we will have to account for future generations.
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