The health impacts of climate change and why calls for action are growing louder

We tend to think about climate change as an environmental problem.

WHO estimates that climate change is already
 causing tens of thousands of deaths every year.

But it's the impending impacts on our health that have medical experts sounding the alarm.

Last November, planetary health professor Tony Capon co-authored the first national report to track Australia's progress on climate change and human health.

It coincided with the release of a global report from leading medical journal The Lancet, which warned climate change is "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century".

"When we understand the connections between climate change and human health, it makes it clear that this is urgent," Professor Capon said.

Since then, calls for climate action from health bodies and medical professionals have grown louder.

Read the ABC News story by Olivia Willis - “The health impacts of climate change and why calls for action are growing louder.”