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Nature and climate crisis: adaptations need to “spread like wildfire”

  1. Woody Caan, retired professorial fellow, Royal Society for Public Health1,
  2. Candice Howarth, head of local climate action2
  1. 1Duxford, Cambridge, UK
  2. 2Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
  1. awcaan{at}gmail.com

Accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity have created a global health emergency.1

The record heatwave in France in 2003 was responsible for over 14 000 excess deaths. France has experienced higher temperatures since then, but its 2004 national heat wave plan meant that mortality was reduced by adaptations including better warning messages, heat reflective surfaces, housing insulation, safe cooling spaces, and shade trees in parks.

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