To mitigate global warming and the resulting climate risk, many countries have accelerated
the optimization of industrial structures and mixture of energy type in an attempt to achieve …

Climate extremes, such as hot temperature and heavy precipitation events, have devastating
effects on human societies. As the planet gets warmer, they have become more intense and …

The frequency and intensity of extreme heat wave events have increased in the past several
decades and are likely to continue to increase in the future under the influence of human …

Abstract Changes in heat stress due to climate change affect living and working conditions.
A wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35 C is identified as the upper physiological limit for human …

Growing evidence indicates that the risk of heat extremes will increase as climate change
progresses and create a significant threat to public health and the economy. Socioeconomic …

To prevent anthropogenic warming of the climate system above dangerous thresholds,
governments are required by the Paris Agreement to peak global anthropogenic CO 2 …

Heatwaves with large impacts have increased in the recent past and will continue to
increase under future warming. However, the implication for population exposure to severe …

When inferring on the magnitude of future heat-related mortality due to climate change,
human adaptation to heat should be accounted for. We model long-term changes in …

In December of 2015, the international community pledged to limit global warming to below
2° C above preindustrial (PI) to prevent dangerous climate change. However, to what extent …

Attributing the changes in the population exposure to global compound hot extremes, which
combine daytime-nighttime hot extremes with more severe impacts, is essential for climate …