Irish medics demand climate crisis be declared a public health emergency 

IDE wants a 'commitment to protecting and restoring vast habitat areas, both on land and at sea, allowing our devastated biodiversity to recover'.

The twin climate and biodiversity crises should be declared a public health emergency, according to a group of Irish medics promoting urgent environmental action.

Irish Doctors for the Environment (IDE) said healthcare now and in the future would be in jeopardy without "mobilisation of individual actions, turning small changes into a collective force of nature".