12/10/2021 (Agence Europe) – With less than 20 days to go before the start of COP26, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a special report on Monday 11 October urging world leaders to step up climate action to protect human health by limiting global warming to 1.5°C. With ten recommendations, the report highlights that weather and climate change threaten food security and promote food-, water-, and vector-borne diseases such as malaria. It is accompanied by an open letter from 300 organisations representing at least 45 million doctors and health professionals calling for the immediate removal of all licensing, subsidies and funding for fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy, while air pollution (mainly from burning fossil fuels) causes 13 deaths per minute worldwide. See the report: https://bit.ly/3asWmcC; and the letter: https://bit.ly/30aGWry (DG)