InterviewClimate action is prescription for better global health: WHO expert
Benefits from meeting Paris goals would 'pay for cost of mitigation'
Climate change activists, doctors and other medical personnel stage a protest in Glasgow during COP26 on Nov. 5. © Doctors for XR/Gareth Morris via Reuters
MAILYS PENE-LASSUS, Nikkei staff writer
November 6, 2021 14:31 JST
GLASGOW -- Climate change and global health are linked inextricably, a key World Health Organization expert explained in an interview, stressing that measures to address the former can help protect the latter -- and potentially even help avert the next pandemic.