Poor must not shoulder responsibility for reducing health care carbon emissions

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The pursuit of net zero health care risks targeting the poor and exacerbating existing unfair heath inequalities unless careful consideration is given to the re-allocation of health care resources. A group of global health researchers, writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, say that as with pandemic measures, the burdens of climate impacts and cutting emissions are not equally shared.

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