# UN climate chief warns climate crisis is a health emergency on ‘pandemic scale’

https://mins.news/en/item/135754

- euronews, 2026-11-09 15:18 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/09/climate-crisis-now-a-health-emergency-of-pandemic-scale-un-climate-chief-warns

> At the COP31 climate change conference in Turkey, the United Nations climate chief warned that climate change is an increasing threat to public health and urged countries to protect their health systems.

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