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Climate crisis = health crisis: A COP26 debrief with MSF

08 Dec 21

Climate crisis = health crisis: A COP26 debrief with MSF

In this episode of Everyday Emergency, we listen in on a discussion about COP26, why Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was a part of it, and what the MSF delegates attending the summit learned from their participation.

The discussion is hosted by Dr Christos Christou, MSF's international president, and took place as a Twitter Spaces conversation on Friday 19 November 2021.

Christos chats with Dr Maria Guevara, MSF's international medical secretary, and Stephen Cornish, General Director of MSF Switzerland, both of whom attended COP26 as observational delegates for MSF this year.

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