As Ireland emerges from a cold week with slips and falls as well as the flu sending people to emergency departments, wildfires engulf parts of California, devasting communities and causing injury and death.  Over the weekend, hospital consultants met in Dublin to discuss the impacts of climate change on health and the imperative for more sustainable healthcare. The health sector is directly impacted by climate change as higher temperatures, extreme weather and the spread of disease make more people ill.  But it is also a cause of the problem as a significant source of carbon pollution and it has to…

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