Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations (UN), political leaders and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded that: ‘Only by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem…can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and maximize the beneficial outcomes’.1 As the health world has recognised with the development of the concept of planetary health, the natural world is made up of one overall interdependent system. Damage to one subsystem can create feedback that damages another—for example, drought, wildfires, floods and the other effects of rising global temperatures destroy plant life and lead to soil erosion, and so inhibit carbon storage, which means more global warming.2 Climate change is set to overtake deforestation and other land-use change as the primary driver of nature loss.3 Nature has a remarkable power to restore. For example, deforested land can revert to forest through natural regeneration, and marine phytoplankton, which act as natural carbon stores, turn over one billion tonnes of photosynthesising biomass …

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是时候将气候和自然危机视为一项不可分割的全球卫生紧急事件了

超过 200 种健康期刊呼吁联合国 (UN)、政治领导人和卫生专业人员认识到气候变化和生物多样性丧失是一场不可分割的危机，必须共同应对，以维护健康并避免灾难。这场整体环境危机现在非常严重，已成为全球卫生紧急事件。目前，世界正在应对气候危机和自然危机，就好像它们是不同的挑战一样。这是一个危险的错误。关于气候变化的第 28 届缔约方会议 (COP) 即将在迪拜举行，而关于生物多样性的第 16 届缔约方会议 (COP) 将于 2024 年在土耳其举行。不幸的是，为两次 COP 提供证据的研究界基本上是分开的，但他们在 2020 年聚集在一起参加了一次研讨会，得出的结论是：“只有将气候和生物多样性视为同一复杂问题的一部分……才能制定解决方案，避免适应不良并最大限度地提高有益成果。”1随着地球健康概念的发展，人们认识到自然世界是由一个相互依存的整体系统组成的。对一个子系统的损害可能会产生损害另一个子系统的反馈——例如，干旱、野火、洪水和全球气温上升的其他影响会破坏植物生命并导致水土流失，从而抑制碳储存，这意味着全球变暖加剧。2气候变化将取代森林砍伐和其他土地利用变化，成为自然丧失的主要驱动因素。3 自然具有惊人的恢复能力。例如，森林砍伐的土地可以通过自然更新恢复为森林，而作为天然碳储存的海洋浮游植物可以转化十亿吨的光合作用生物量……