Doctors joined climate protesters outside a meeting of the world’s top health ministers and experts condemning the ‘very limited’ G7 Health meeting agenda.

The agenda for the meeting included discussions on global health security, antimicrobial resistance, clinical trials, and digital health, but climate campaign group Extinction Rebellion say the climate emergency and its implications for health should also be discussed.

Demonstrators gathered outside the Clarendon Building on Broad Street holding plaques, and they were joined by a Samba band.

Before the protest Dr Angela Wilson said: “Unfortunately, the Climate Emergency and its implications for Health are not being discussed by the G7. Climate change is the greatest threat to human health that we face. The G7 must fund a post pandemic recovery that protects the environment and reduces inequalities across the world.”

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Extinction Rebellion describe ‘global heating’ as the ‘greatest threat to global health of the 21st century’. The campaign group say heatstroke, malaria, malnutrition, cholera, death from extreme weather and even stress are health risks of the climate crisis.

Dr Diana Warner is a retired GP, and attended the protest to deliver a letter from Doctors for Extinction Rebellion to the G7 health ministers. She said if the letter does not get delivered, she will return and meditate until it does.

“My children’s lives and if they have any children themselves, theirs too will be at stake. It is time now - there is not going to be another opportunity like this.”

She added: “Our health is now suffering. As many as one in five people die because of inhaling pollution from fossil fuel burning and that is just the fossil fuel burning aspect of the climate and ecological emergency.

“They are not acting like they understand in the slightest, so as doctors and as Doctors for Extinction Rebellion, we have to make sure they understand and read the letters.”

Members of the Oxford Climate Justice Campaign were also protesting and say they would like to see pharmaceutical companies drop the patents for the vaccine and share the technology so countries across the world can produce the vaccine.