The World Health Organization has urged leaders to prioritize climate action amid this week’s heat wave in Europe.

“Europe’s heat wave is closing schools and putting people’s health at risk,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in a post on X.

Tedros urged: “We cannot afford further delay.”

“Leaders must prioritise investment in climate-resilient health systems, while also accelerating (climate action) and mitigating the drivers of the climate crisis,” he added.

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