Global health professionals call on G7 to speed up coal phase-out

Madeleine Cuff
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Bodies representing more than 300,000 doctors, nurses and other health professionals around the world call on G7 leaders to accelerate transition away from coal-fired electricity

The world's nurses, doctors and allied health professionals have today called on the world's most powerful leaders to hasten the phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation to minimise the risk to human...

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