🧵"As the first nation-state to call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, #Vanuatu’s bold leadership should spur other countries to move rapidly to end our addiction to fossil fuels." @JeniMiller #fossilfueltreaty #fossilfree4health #ClimateWeekNYC
“Fossil fuels have devastating consequences for people’s health, from impacts of extraction to being major contributor to 7M premature deaths per yr from air pollution & massive & increasing toll #climatechange is taking on public health around world” @JeniMiller #ClimateWeekNYC
"Access to #energy is health issue for people everywhere, but with clean energy solutions already available & ready to be scaled up, they should not have to pay for energy with health & wellbeing, due to exposure to fossil fuel related pollution" @JeniMiller #ClimateWeekNYC
"World leaders must come together to create a fossil fuel treaty that can drive a just, global phase out of fossil fuels, and support the transition to clean energy that will protect people’s health from climate change” @JeniMiller #ClimateWeekNYC /END 🧵

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.@TheLancet: "It is a bold action for any health professional to take an explicit position calling for phase-out of fossil fuels & even bolder to do so in direct & pointed way, calling for intl legally binding mechanism” @JeniMiller thelancet.com/journals/lance… #fossilfree4health
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