ABSTRACT
Medicine’s most pressing global issue (and political problem) is the climate emergency: global warming, increasing pollution and loss of biodiversity. The perils of global warming, pollution and loss of biodiversity – now commonly referred to as a “Climate Emergency” – are well documented. Again, the most vulnerable social groups will also be those most severely affected by climate change outcomes, linked also with increasing levels of pollution. By 2018, The Lancet’s Countdown Report on the climate emergency and health repeated that “climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. Already at the cliff’s edge, medical schools are waking up to the fact that the health implications of the climate emergency should be central to any undergraduate medicine curriculum. Pockets of concerned medical students and doctors worldwide have prompted urgent action on the climate emergency in both medical education and publicly as professionals who are first and foremost concerned citizens.
