Health groups pick fossil fuel phaseout as top priority at COP 28

What will success at COP 28 look like for the health sector?

This was the question The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton asked panelists at the launch last week of the Lancet Countdown report, which provides a grim picture of the health consequences of the world's failures to curb climate change.

While health is a core theme of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 28, Horton warned of the “danger of healthwashing.”

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