Wellcome Trust urged to divest by 1,000 health professionals

Hundreds add their support to an open letter urging medical charity to 'do no harm' and not profit from fossil fuels

Close to 1,000 health professionals from around the world have thrown their weight behind an open letter asking the multi-billion pound health charity, the Wellcome Trust, to move its money out of fossil fuels on ethical grounds.

The letter invokes one of the foremost principles of medical ethics, asking the Trust to "do no harm" because of the current and future impacts of climate change on global public health.