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The Coda community have identified the Climate Emergency as the most urgent threat to global health. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the climate crisis will become catastrophic if we don't take action immediately. This episode of CodaZero Earth focuses on action stage one – 'identify' and lays the foundations for stage two - 'examine' (as set out in our Five Stage action process). We outline the urgency of the challenges that global healthcare faces and how as health professionals, we must sound the alarm for both our patients and for our children. Conversation one dives into how gas is often positioned as a “safer transition fuel” when in fact it is completely unnecessary and a potential super-pollutant. The panel critically assesses the interrelationship of power, wealth and influence in government and how to overcome the sceptics in the fight for truth about the grave threat the #climateEmergency poses to health. Then, we move on to how the climate crisis is exacerbating existing Injustice a