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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 2nd, 2019. I'm Steve Murski.

The United Nations here in New York City last week hosted the UN Climate Action Summit.

Scientific American senior editor Jen Schwartz was on site. She moderated a panel on climate and health and did an interview on transitioning to clean energy. Each audio segment is about 11 minutes long.

First up is the Climate and Health panel. Schwartz spoke with Dr. Maria Niera from Spain and Dr. Agni Succott from France.

Niera is the Director of the Department of Public Health, Environment, and Social Determinance of Health for the World Health Organization.

Sukkot is the director of the Department of Health Systems governing and financing of the WHO.

Thank you. governing and financing of the WHO.

So this is going to be climate change and its impact on our health, and we have Maria Norea and Agnes Sukkut here with us from the World Health Organization.

And this topic is so important to us at Scientific American. We cover it a lot,

especially because there's so much we don't know in many ways, and we're still studying about

how climate change has an impact on our health. So I wanted to start and jump right in with

the global health agreement that has been adopted here and what this means in the broader

context. Okay, there is a climate summit going on inside. And one of the big pillars of that

summit is about the health commitments. We managed to have a coalition looking at the social and

political drivers of this climate summit and is focusing on health.

We have two commitments that we are asking the countries to make.

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