We owe it to our patients to lead and support climate change action
After months of negotiations, the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21) adopted a historic and unprecedented climate change agreement in Paris recently. The Paris Agreement reflects nearly universal recognition among parties that climate change demands an urgent, coordinated response. This agreement includes cutting greenhouse gas emissions to curtail the average global temperature rise to “well below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature …