Climate change is a 'global health emergency' and the harms are accelerating, Lancet report warns
Researchers say heat-related deaths and economic losses are rising faster than climate action, and urge a new World Health Organization response mechanism.
- On Wednesday, researchers from University College London and the World Health Organisation published a report demanding Climate Change be declared a global health emergency before next month's Cop31 conference.
- Professor Marina Romanello of the Lancet Countdown said health risks escalated faster in the decade since the Paris Agreement, with annual heat-related fatalities surging by almost 36 per cent.
- Extreme heat contributed to a record 710,000 fatalities in 2023, with researchers attributing over 70 per cent directly to man-made warming as fossil fuels still provide over 80 per cent of energy.
- Severe drought affected nearly 52 per cent of global land for at least one month in 2025, while the world swings to water extremes—some regions drying out, others flooding.
- Clean energy funding hit a record in 2025, though researchers warn top oil producers will surpass production limits compatible with 1.5C by 150 per cent by 2040, undercutting progress.
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‘Climate change a global health emergency’
PARIS — Climate change must be declared a “global health emergency” to shape governments’ policies after heat caused 3 million deaths between 2016 and 2023, a report in The Lancet said Wednesday.Published by the British medical journal ahead of the COP31 summit in November, the 10th edition of the report brought together 146 researchers from 30 countries to assess the impact on the health of the world’s population.It said there were a record 710…
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When the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, then-President Barack Obama said, "This agreement represents the best chance we've had to save the one planet that we've got." But a decade later, a new report, led by University College London in collaboration with the World [...]
According to a new study, climate change should be declared "global health emergency" to become the priority of governments in order to finance the adaptation of health systems and economies, in the context of the canicle causing three million deaths between 2016 and 2023. Article The effects of global warming. Three million people died between 2016 and 2023 because of the heat first appears in Romania TV.
Climate change aggravates health damage: heat was linked to 710,000 deaths in 2023. Lancet Countdown calls for a global health emergency.
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PARIS, Oct 28 — Climate change must be declared a “global health emergency” to shape governments’ policies after heat caused three million deaths between 2016 and 2023, a...
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