This week, the “great” and the “good” have boarded their private jets and converged on Antalya, Turkey for COP31 – the 31st meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The aim of this particular COP?
Climate Change is being re-branded – it’s no longer about the environment, it’s about “public health”.
This is something I first predicted years ago – several times, actually – but now it’s official.
Monday, the opening day of the summit, was “COP31 Health Day”, and featured special panels focusing on vaguely unsettling topics like “Strong Climate Action and Digital Health” and “New Dimensions in Health: Climate-Sensitive Health Technologies and Access”.
It’s a done deal. Climate Change is now a major public health threat – of “pandemic scale”.
