Lancet study urges climate change be declared global health emergency
A Lancet report counts a record 710,000 heat-related deaths in 2023, with over 70% linked to human-caused warming. Its authors argue that progress so far is too slow and too small to protect those most at risk.
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What happened
A Lancet study says health harms from warming have outpaced progress made since the Paris Agreement. The report found a record 710,000 people died from heat-related causes in 2023, with more than 70% of those deaths linked to human-caused climate change. Experts in the study call for climate change to be declared a global health emergency.
Why it matters
The study says current progress is too slow and too small, and is not reaching the people who need it most.
Coverage
- Experts call on UN to declare climate change a health emergency (Euronews)
- Heat Deaths Reach Record High: 146 Experts Call to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency (sciencealert.com)
- Climate change must be declared a ‘global health emergency’, says Lancet study (AFP)
- Climate change must be declared ‘global health emergency’: Lancet study (The Straits Times)
- Experts urge 'global health emergency' as climate harms and heat deaths accelerate (DW)
- The Cost of Lagging Global Climate Action Is Lost Lives and Poor Health (insideclimatenews.org)
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