Sauerborn, RainerKjellstrom, TordNilsson, Maria2016-02-012016-02-011654-9880http://hdl.handle.net/1885/96184Health impacts of climate change and the need to prevent them should be at centre stage of the ongoing debate on climate policies (1). We have specifically prepared this series of papers to be available for the COP151 conference in Copenhagen, to which the world looks to agree on targets and procedures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the basis of fair burden-sharing between high and low-income countries.© 2009 Rainer Sauerborn et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.healthclimate policyHealth as a crucial driver for climate policy200910.3402/gha.v2i0.21042016-02-24