Leading health experts call on Wellcome to divest from fossil fuels

Open letter urges Wellcome Trust to divest, citing "extremely serious health effects" that could be caused by climate change

" Read the letter, and if you're a health practioner you can sign it, here

A group of high-profile health practitioners, including the editors of the Lancet and the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have called upon the Wellcome Trust to divest from fossil fuels in an open letter published on Thursday in the Guardian.

Among the signatories are Anthony Costello, director of the University College London (UCL) Institute for Public Health, Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, Fiona Sim, chair of the Royal Society for Public Health, Richard Horton, editor of medical journal the Lancet and Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ.