Climate health: focus on translation

“Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I'm not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.”

― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope (2021)

With the release of The Lancet’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change in October, 2021, and the coincident UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), sobering statistics across 44 indicators have made it clear that climate change is increasingly affecting our health—and that the situation is dire indeed.