Lancet launches climate health impact 'countdown'

As WMO warns 2016 very likely to be hottest year on record, influential medical journal launches new initiative to track response to climate 'health crisis'

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The Lancet has today launched a major global research initiative to track and analyse the impacts of climate change on public health. Unveiled on the sidelines of the COP22 Summit in Marrakesh, The...

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