Doctors urged to take climate leadership role

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Military and medical experts call on doctors to use their position of trust in society to build support for action on climate change

Doctors must take a leading role in highlighting the dangers of climate change, which will lead to conflict, disease and ill-health, and threatens global security, according to a stark warning from an...

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