Climate Change Must Be Declared 'Global Health Emergency'- Lancet Study
The report says heat linked to 710,000 deaths in 2023 and warns climate-driven illness and losses are accelerating worldwide.
- On Tuesday, the 10th annual Lancet Countdown report, authored by 146 researchers from more than 30 countries and led by University College London, found that health harms from climate change are accelerating faster than in the previous decade.
- Heat was linked to a record 710,000 estimated deaths in 2023, while climate change caused nearly 3 million heat-related deaths between 2016 and 2023 and carved an estimated $1.07 trillion out of the global economy.
- Incidence of extreme drought has grown more than 700 percent faster in the decade since the Paris Agreement, with these global harms falling disproportionately on lower-income nations that have contributed relatively little to the climate crisis.
- Nepal became the first country to receive an emergency allocation of $20 million from the U.N. Loss and Damage Fund this month, though that amount is less than 1 percent of the $2.7 billion the nation sustained in initial losses.
- Ahead of the 31st United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate, known as COP31, in November, Jeni Miller of the Global Climate and Health Alliance warned that current international progress fails to "meet the urgency of the moment.
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Connect FM | Local News Radio | Dubois, PAClimate change is a ‘global health emergency’ and the harms are accelerating, Lancet report warns
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 [...]
A "Lancet" report shows dramatic consequences of global warming for health: every year more than half a million people die of heat worldwide, droughts spread rapidly. Time to proclaim a health emergency?
While progress is being made through the deployment of clean energy and the strengthening of legislation, the adverse effects of warming on health are increasing faster than measures to address them. The authors of this reference report on the links between health and climate, published on Wednesday, 28 October, call for climate change to be recognized as a "global health emergency".
Imagine a disease that, in just one year, will take the lives of 710,000 people, the equivalent of the population of the Spanish city of Zaragoza. That happened in 2023, but not because of a virus or bacteria, but because of exposure to high temperatures, which claimed that enormous amount of lives worldwide. 70% of those deaths, in addition, can be attributed directly to the climate change caused by the human being due mainly to the use of foss…
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