Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Editorial | OPEN ACCESS

COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world

Lukoye Atwoli¹, Gregory E Erhabor², Aiah A Gbakima³, Abraham Haileamlak⁴, Jean-Marie Kayembe Ntumba⁵, James Kigera⁶, Laurie Laybourn-Langton⁷, Bob Mash⁸, Joy Muhia⁹, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi¹⁰, David Ofori-Adjei¹¹, Friday Okonofua¹², Arash Rashidian¹³, Maha El-Adawy¹³, Siaka Sidibe¹⁴, Abdelmadjid Snouber¹⁵, James Tumwine¹⁶, Mohammad Sahar Yassien¹⁷, Paul Yonga¹⁸, Lilia Zakhama¹⁹, Chris Zielinski²⁰

¹Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal; ¹⁰Editor-in-Chief, Curationis; ¹¹Editor-in-Chief, Ghana Medical Journal; ¹²Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Reproductive Health; ¹³Executive Editor and Director of Health Promotion, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal; ¹⁴Director of Publication, Mali Medical; ¹⁵Managing Editor, Journal de la FacultÃ© de MÃ©decine dâ€™Oran; ¹⁶Editor-in-Chief, African Health Sciences; ¹⁷Editor-in-Chief, Evidence-Based Nursing Research; ¹⁸Managing Editor, East African Medical Journal; ¹⁹Editor-in-Chief, La Tunisie MÃ©dicale; ²Editor-in-Chief, West African Journal of Medicine; ²⁰University of Winchester.. ³Editor-in-Chief, Sierra Leone Journal of Biomedical Research; ⁴Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences; ⁵Chief Editor, Annales Africaines de Medecine; ⁶Editor-in-Chief, Annals of African Surgery; ⁷University of Exeter; ⁸Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; ⁹London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene;

For correspondence:- Chris Zielinski Email: chris.zielinski@ukhealthalliance.org

Published: 30 November 2022

Citation: Atwoli L, Erhabor GE, Gbakima AA, Haileamlak A, Ntumba JK, Kigera J, et al. COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world. Trop J Pharm Res 2022; 21(11):2275-2278 doi: 10.4314/tjpr.v21i11.1

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Keywords: Climate change, Africa, Action time