Climate change: ‘An intensifying global health emergency’
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Climate change: ‘An intensifying global health emergency’
According to the 2026 global report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, “climate change is increasingly affecting health and threatening people’s survival worldwide, and the window of opportunity to avoid a potentially catastrophic future is rapidly closing,” reports Ian Angus.
The cost of lagging global climate action is lost lives and poor health
Read the full story at Inside Climate News. A new report finds health harms from warming outpaced progress after the Paris Agreement and calls for climate change to be declared a global health emergency. See also Romanello, M., Walawender, M., Israelsson, J., et al (2026). The 2026 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and … Continue reading The cost of lagging global climate action is lost lives and poor health
A new report reveals a dramatic increase in health risks and economic damage, which are rising sharply since the Paris Agreement.
The tenth annual report, prepared by 146 researchers from more than 30 countries, warns that health risks grew faster between 2016 and 2025 than in the previous decade. Deaths associated with heat, labour productivity loss and water extremes expose the human and economic cost of the climate crisis. Experts call for declaring climate change a global health emergency. Lancet Countdown’s 2026 report will be presented at COP31 in Turkey.
Excerpts from the "Lancet Countdown" report of 2026 on health and climate change.
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