Joint brief The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change & Médecins Sans Frontières

Organization: Lancet Countdown & Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Year: 2024

Joint brief The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change & Médecins Sans Frontières

In this brief, drawing on evidence from indicators in the 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change,1 MSF teams present examples of how climate change and environmental degradation are making provision of assistance more difficult by amplifying health and humanitarian needs and by further complicating interventions.2 It also highlights activities that respond to the climate crisis using a three-pillar approach: mitigating MSF’s environmental footprint, adapting healthcare delivery and emergency response to the current and future realities of climate change, and advocating for those impacted.