TY - JOUR T1 - Tobacco control and the climate emergency JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 395 LP - 396 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2022-057412 VL - 31 IS - 3 AU - Ruth E Malone Y1 - 2022/05/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/31/3/395.abstract N2 - In November 2021, Tobacco Control joined more than 200 health journals in urging governments to take immediate action to halt the destruction of the natural world caused by fossil fuel dependency. The climate crisis we face means that ‘governments must make fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organised and how we live’.1 In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report2 and its findings (rated by confidence that the science is solid to conclude each) are deeply disturbing. Every adult human being should read the report’s summary for policymakers, including these conclusions:Climate change has caused substantial damages, and increasingly irreversible losses, in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems (high confidence). The extent and magnitude of climate change impacts are larger than estimated in previous assessments (high confidence). Widespread deterioration of ecosystem structure and function, resilience and natural adaptive capacity, as well as shifts in seasonal timing have occurred due to climate change (high confidence), with adverse socioeconomic consequences (high confidence). Approximately half of the species assessed globally have shifted polewards or, on land, also to higher elevations (very high confidence). Hundreds of local losses of species have been driven by increases in the magnitude of heat extremes (high confidence), as well as mass mortality events on land and in the ocean (very high confidence) and loss of kelp forests (high confidence).Climate change has adversely affected physical health of people globally (very high confidence) and mental health of people in the assessed regions (very high confidence). Climate change impacts … ER -