Key messages:

1. Delays in climate change action are increasingly costing lives and livelihoods.

2. Millions of people are dying needlessly each year due to fossil fuel dependence, growing greenhouse gas emissions, and failure to adequately adapt to climate change.

Fantastic also to see @drelainemulcahy.bsky.social from @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social presenting on the UK policy priorities.

If we’re serious about climate resilience, we have to start with human physiology.

Thanks to @rsc.org for the invitation.

So my call to action was clear:

🔥 Put health at the heart of climate policy
🧠 Use physiology to define limits & priorities for urgent mitigation
🛡️ Design adaptation around physiological resilience ie what our bodies can cope with

Simple message:

Climate change harms people through their bodies.

Heat, air pollution & poor nutrition don’t act separately, they stack up in the heart, lungs & brain.

And that’s where physiology comes in.