Sunday 17 May 2009

Climate catastrophe and the medical profession

Climate change poses the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century but its full impact is not being grasped by the healthcare community or policymakers, a medical report concludes.

Professor Costello said that the health lobby "had come to the issue late and should be saying more".

In Waltham Forest, the local health trust is very much part of the problem.