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  "description": "European former leaders and health officials call for climate change to be treated as a security and public health crisis.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T23:02:24.000Z",
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  "textContent": "GENEVA (AN) — A high-level commission convened by the World Health Organization’s Europe office called on WHO to formally declare climate change a \"public health emergency of international concern,\" arguing that escalating climate impacts pose systemic risks to health, security and economic stability.\n\nThe recommendation, published on Sunday in a \"Call to Action\" report by the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health, would significantly expand efforts to frame climate change not only as an environmental issue but as a transboundary health and governance emergency requiring coordinated international action.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "WHO-backed commission urges climate emergency declaration",
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