{
  "id": 16948166,
  "title": "Call for New WHO Instrument to Address Climate-Driven Global Health Emergency",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/call-for-new-who-instrument-to-address-climate-driven-global-health",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T19:30:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/call-for-new-who-instrument-to-address-climate-driven-global-health-emergency/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A decade after the Paris Agreement took effect, climate-related heat, drought, floods, disease and dirty air are killing millions. The authors of a major annual report want the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify the crisis as a health emergency. Climate change has become a global health emergency that needs a new WHO instrument to […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}