Category: Climate Crisis

  TOWARD MORE RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE HUMANITARIAN ACTION As a medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) witnesses firsthand the impacts of climate change, and how they threaten people’s health. In our emergency interventions, we are responding to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. This includes deaths and […]

Read More… from MSF highlights global health inequities due to climate change in 2022 Lancet Countdown Report

The climate emergency is a threat to the future of our planet and the health and well-being of people around the world.

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Read More… from The climate emergency: MSF commits to reduce carbon emissions to help safeguard the health of the most vulnerable

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has long responded to some of the world’s worst medical and humanitarian crises. Many of the areas in which we work are in the most climate-vulnerable settings in the world, and our teams provide care for people experiencing the health impacts of the climate emergency first-hand. It is very […]

Read More… from The climate crisis is a health and humanitarian crisis

In a new humanitarian brief for the 2021 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, MSF medical humanitarians from around the world and across disciplines share their experiences with how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises.

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Read More… from MSF warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report

MSF pledges to reduce the carbon emissions of its medical humanitarian projects by at least 50 percent by 2030 to safeguard the future health of patients and communities.

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Read More… from Climate Emergency: No choice but to act

MSF policy briefing for Lancet Countdown.

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Read More… from Lancet Countdown: No one is immune to the climate emergency