Vanessa Kerry: The pace of climate change and its growing impacts are really at a tipping point

"The pace of climate change and its growing impacts are really at a tipping point and nowhere is this more clear than at the intersection of climate and change in health. Our fragile progress is being lost.
According to the WHO, 1 in 4 of the world's deaths today are from preventable environmental causes.
Our critically underserved and under-resourced health systems and our health workers cannot deal with the burden of disease today, let alone the burden exacerbated by climate change tomorrow...
Before us lies a choice, a pathway to create a cascade of benefits to protect our planet, our livelihoods, our health and well-being. If we embrace health centered response to climate change with smarter investment we can have catalytic impact across multiple sectors..."