Should climate change be on the protection radar?

Environmental threats dominate the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) list of most likely and impactful global risks for the third year in a row. At the same time, new scientific evidence concludes that heatwaves linked to climate change pose an increasing danger that threatens to overwhelm health systems around the world. All evidence points to the fact that, globally speaking, we are failing to deal with these very real issues. Findings from the 'Countdown on Health and Climate Change' report, recently published in The Lancet, conclude that heatwaves linked to climate change can be directl...