Dr Emma Runswick, BMA deputy chair of council, had said there was “no possible public or patient interest” for a tribunal where potential sanctions included the removal of a doctor’s licence in these circumstances.
Dr Runswick said: “Climate change has been declared the biggest potential health crisis in the world by the World Health Organisation (WHO).”
A spokesperson for the Doctors’ Association UK said: “This is a story of a clinician being punished for raising serious concerns about dangerous inaction on the greatest threat to global health we have ever, or will ever experience.
“The right to peaceful protest is a basic human right. It cannot and must not be taken away.
“Given the evidence on climate change and its health impacts, we strongly believe that peaceful protest should not be viewed as condemnable professional misconduct – but as commendable public health advocacy.”