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Doctors and nurses should tell their patients to fight climate change, experts have said.
Writing in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, they said medics should wield their 'trusted' positions in society to get people to take care of the planet.
Academics wrote that health professionals could be 'effective messengers' and help encourage more people to fight climate change.
The recommendation, by three Australian scientists, comes ahead of the UK hosting the crunch UN Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.
The conference, which will be attended by the Queen, Greta Thunberg and an array of world leaders, will urge countries to do more to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Boris Johnson has already put in place plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by the end of this decade, in an effort to reach 'net-zero' by 2050.
Other plans to fight climate change include banning the installation of gas boilers from 2025, and commitments to increase offshore wind plants.
It comes after a 'doomsday' UN report published last month, dubbed 'code red for humanity', warned the planet was likely to warm by 1.5C by 2040, a decade earlier than forecasted.
Writing in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Healthy, they said medics should weild their 'trusted' positions in society to get people to take care of the planet (stock)
The researchers behind the new recommendation, from the University of New South Wales, wrote in their paper: 'Research shows the more likely you are to agree climate change is impacting us now and see the links between extreme weather events today and climate change, the more concerned
