Governments need to act, and the Lancet Countdown—an international research collaboration that tracks how health is being impacted—is giving decisionmakers undeniable evidence that change is needed right now. “When we talk about climate change, we’re not talking about the future. The cost of inaction is that we pay with people’s lives,” says Marina Romanello, the organization’s executive director. But, she says, we shouldn’t see this just as a doomsday scenario.
Even on things like the international health regulations, which are legally mandated and designed to help countries better respond to an international hazard—for example, a global pandemic—many countries are still lagging on adopting them. This leaves most countries unprotected and unprepared to cope in the event of a health emergency, whether it’s triggered by climate change or not.
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