
The 2023 Latin America report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development
2024; Elsevier BV; Volume: 33; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.lana.2024.100746
ISSN2667-193X
AutoresStella M. Hartinger, Yasna K. Palmeiro-Silva, Camila Llerena-Cayo, Luciana Blanco-Villafuerte, Luis E. Escobar, Avriel Díaz, Juliana Helo Sarmiento, Andrés G. Lescano, Óscar Melo, David Rojas‐Rueda, Bruno Takahashi, Max Callaghan, Francisco Chesini, Shouro Dasgupta, Carolina Gil Posse, Nélson Gouveia, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Zaray Miranda-Chacón, Nahid Mohajeri, Chrissie Pantoja, Elizabeth Robinson, Maria Fernanda Salas, Raquel de Andrade Cardoso Santiago, Enzo Sauma, Mauricio Santos‐Vega, Daniel Scamman, Milena Sergeeva, Tatiana Souza de Camargo, Cecilia Sorensen, Juan D. Umaña, Marisol Yglesias-González, Maria Walawender, Daniel Buss, Marina Romanello,
Tópico(s)Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
ResumoIn 2023, a series of climatological and political events unfolded, partly driving forward the global climate and health agenda while simultaneously exposing important disparities and vulnerabilities to climate-related events. On the policy front, a significant step forward was marked by the inaugural Health Day at COP28, acknowledging the profound impacts of climate change on health. However, the first-ever Global Stocktake showed an important gap between the current progress and the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, underscoring the urgent need for further and decisive action. From a Latin American perspective, some questions arise: How do we achieve the change that is needed? How to address the vulnerabilities to climate change in a region with long-standing social inequities? How do we promote intersectoral collaboration to face a complex problem such as climate change? The debate is still ongoing, and in many instances, it is just starting. The renamed regional centre
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