As the world’s eyes turn to Dubai for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Austin-based Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light is sending video dispatches from the conference to the Chronicle.

It’s been 27 years since the first COP, and this is the first year that human health has been on the official agenda – but it’s quickly become one of the most popular issues. Bee Moorhead celebrates this development with colleague Dr. Abi Oluyomi, professor of epidemiology and population sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. They break down what the new COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health means in light of the catchphrase of the day: “The climate crisis is a health crisis.”

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Follow Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light’s continuing coverage from COP28.

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This article appears in December 1 • 2023.

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