Climate Change and Health: An Urgent Call to Academic Emergency Medicine

Abstract

There is consensus among 97% of scientists that anthropogenic climate change is occurring and international agreement of the grave threat it poses.^1,2 A Lancet Commission declared climate change "the biggest global health threat of the 21^st century" with "potentially catastrophic risk to human health."^3,4 Emergency medicine (EM) is already on the frontlines as climate change directly affects our patients, clinical practice, and emergency departments (EDs). This presents EM with a profound leadership opportunity to join our colleagues in the house of medicine to improve health and save lives.

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