What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay?

A core human need is fresh water, co-chair of new Lancet Commission says – with global empathy, connection and imagination all needed to mitigate climate harms World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns Christiana Figueres: Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable In November in Solomon Islands, the former Tongan health minister Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala stood outside the main hospital in Honiara and “watched seawater lapping at its...

By Melissa Davey Medical editor