The climate crisis is increasingly becoming a public health crisis, officials in New York warned this week, calling for better training, research and resilience-building measures to address two priorities at the center of the UN General Assembly. Combating climate change and improving public health are key objectives of the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as governments struggle to find a way forward towards the 17 headline targets, with only 15 percent of them on track when the crisis hit. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an additional 250,000 people are expected to die each year due to climate change, while statistics show that one in four deaths can be attributed to “preventable environmental causes.” (Thomson Reuters Foundation)