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 …

Public health implications of drought in a climate change context: a critical review

C Salvador, R Nieto, SM Vicente-Serrano… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather events are expected to increase due to climate change, which could pose
an additional burden of morbidity and mortality. In recent decades, drought severity has …

Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022

J Ballester, M Quijal-Zamorano… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting
societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect …

Testing the EKC hypothesis for ecological and carbon intensity of well-being: The role of forest extent

D Barak, M Kocoglu, A Jahanger, M Tan - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The G-20 countries represent a considerable percentage of the global economy and are
crucial in matters to do with support for environmental sustainability. The uniqueness of this …

The green transition and its potential territorial discontents

A Rodríguez-Pose, F Bartalucci - Cambridge Journal of Regions …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed across territories. Less is known
about the potential effects of climate policies aimed at mitigating the negative consequences …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air pollution and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment

S Khomenko, E Pisoni, P Thunis… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Ambient air pollution is a major risk to health and wellbeing in European cities.
We aimed to estimate spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air …

Noise and air pollution as risk factors for hypertension: part I—epidemiology

O Hahad, S Rajagopalan, J Lelieveld, M Sørensen… - …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Traffic noise and air pollution are 2 major environmental health risk factors in urbanized
societies that often occur together. Despite cooccurrence in urban settings, noise and air …

Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond

J Rocklöv, JC Semenza, S Dasgupta… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Climate change is one of several drivers of recurrent outbreaks and geographical range
expansion of infectious diseases in Europe. We propose a framework for the co-production …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health

J Fanzo, L Miachon - Anthropocene, 2023 - Elsevier
With climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing conflicts, food systems and the
diets they produce are facing increasing fragility. In a turbulent, hot world, threatened …

West Nile virus eco-epidemiology and climate change

J Heidecke, A Lavarello Schettini, J Rocklöv - PLOS Climate, 2023 - journals.plos.org
West Nile virus (WNV) is an arbovirus with a wide geographical distribution. It is maintained
in an enzootic bird-mosquito cycle and exhibits regular zoonotic transmission to humans, to …