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  • Headline competence (learning outcome)After completing this Topic, you should be able to:
    Debate the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of potential interventions to reduce the Public Health impact of climate change in your setting.

    Bear in mind the headline comment from a 2014 report by 18 prestigious scientists:

    "In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilisation. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us". (Blue Planet Synthesis paper for UNEP)

    This message is repeated regularly - here by a lead author of part of the 2022 IPCC report: Loss and damage: A moral imperative to act.

    • We would like you to reflect on what you can do locally - research, advocacy, education - whatever you feel is relevant in your setting - if you feel that this is a local priority for you!

    • Take this quiz - a score of 7/10 will qualify towards a certificate