Climate change threatens our health and survival within decades

A Costello, M Romanello, S Hartinger… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Climate change harms health in all populations. 1 Heatrelated illness and deaths are
increasing worldwide, from heatstroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, worsened kidney …

Urgent action is needed to protect human health from the increasing effects of climate change

N Hobbhahn, R Fears, A Haines… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2019 - thelancet.com
The progression of climate change is increasingly recognised as a climate emergency by
international advisory bodies and governments worldwide, and there are growing warnings …

Tackling climate change: the greatest opportunity for global health

H Wang, R Horton - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
“Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.”
1 This finding, the central message of the second Lancet Commission on Health and …

The relationship between climate change, health, and the humanitarian response

L Baxter, CR McGowan, S Smiley, L Palacios… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
The climate emergency is a humanitarian and health crisis. Extreme weather events, heat
stress, declining air quality, changes in water quality and quantity, declining food security …

Justice should be at the centre of assessments of climate change impacts on health

P Kotsila, I Anguelovski - The Lancet Public Health, 2023 - thelancet.com
Several reports, such as the LancetCountdown on health and climate change, 1, 2 analyse
and quantify the impacts of a changing climate on human health, bring attention to the …

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

K Abbasi, P Ali, V Barbour, T Benfield… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Over 200 health journals call on the UN, political leaders, and health professionals to
recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be …

The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future

S Zhang, C Zhang, W Cai, Y Bai… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive summary With growing health risks from climate change and a trend of increasing
carbon emissions from coal, it is time for China to take action. The rising frequency and …

The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

M Romanello, A McGushin, C Di Napoli, P Drummond… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that
independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing …

The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

W Cai, C Zhang, HP Suen, S Ai, Y Bai, J Bao… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Left unmitigated, climate change poses a catastrophic risk to human
health, requiring an urgent and concerted response from every country. As the home to one …

The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

M Romanello, C Di Napoli, C Green, H Kennard… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international research collaboration that
independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging …