Dear Colleagues,

Once again, a rather busy week for global/planetary health. In Antalya, Turkey, the climate health emergency took centre stage at COP 31 – well,at least on Day 1. Simon Stiel (UN climate chief), addressing Ministers of Health and other leaders at the Health Day, called the climate crisis now “a global health crisis of pandemic proportions. ”  He’s not wrong, in this new ‘age of climate extremes’ in which we are, moreover, ‘heading for irrevocable overshoot‘ (which you probably only relish if you’re psychopath Hegseth material).    As an increasing number of health actors have been saying, “phasing out fossil fuels has never been so urgent”.  Gone is ‘Health for all’, apparently countries now have to prioritize ‘health resilience’ (see the just launched Antalya Initiative for Health Resilience).  This week also saw a call for the current super El Niño to be labelled a PHEIC, as sort of a ‘testing ground’ for WHO.  In sum, plenty of ‘climate & heath’ related...