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Climate change is a 'global health emergency' and the harms are accelerating, Lancet report warns
Researchers say climate change drove record heat deaths and more than $1 trillion in lost income, while vulnerable regions faced the steepest GDP losses.
- 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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Heat Deaths Reach Record High: 146 Experts Call to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency
As record heat interrupts work, overloads hospitals, and claims thousands of lives around the world, international experts are calling for climate change to be officially recognized as a global health emergency, in The Lancet's 2026 Countdown on Health and Climate Change.
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