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The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey.
Lancet Public Health
December 2024
Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Geography, and Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Electronic address:
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action.
Lancet
November 2024
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- The world is nearing the critical threshold of 1.5°C warming, with 2023 recording an average temperature rise of 1.45°C since pre-industrial times, leading to severe climate-related impacts.
- The Countdown collaboration, formed to assess the health impacts of climate change post-Paris Agreement, involves over 300 experts analyzing data and trends annually.
- The 2024 report highlights troubling increases in climate-related health risks, such as a staggering 167% rise in heat-related deaths among seniors, indicating worsening conditions affecting wellbeing globally.
The 2023 Latin America report of the Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development.
Lancet Reg Health Am
May 2024
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
In 2023, a series of climatological and political events unfolded, partly driving forward the global climate and health agenda while simultaneously exposing important disparities and vulnerabilities to climate-related events. On the policy front, a significant step forward was marked by the inaugural Health Day at COP28, acknowledging the profound impacts of climate change on health. However, the first-ever Global Stocktake showed an important gap between the current progress and the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, underscoring the urgent need for further and decisive action.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017 and produced its first national assessment in 2018 and annual updates in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. It examines five broad domains: health hazards, exposures and impacts; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the sixth report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHow Physicians Should Respond to Climate Change.
J Am Board Fam Med
February 2024
From the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University.
Urgent warnings about the existential threat of climate change are coming from leaders in nearly every sector of society, including virtually all climate scientists, notable heads of civil governments around the globe, the world's top religious leaders, prestigious medical journals, as well as principals of the largest financial firms. Surveys show that the majority of U.S.
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