Climate change should be formally declared 'global health emergency', new study suggests

“Climate change should be formally declared 'global health emergency', new study suggests”

A new report has urged international governments to declare climate change a global health emergency. Health harms from climate change have grown faster in the decade since countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 than in the decade before, according to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Annual average heat-related deaths rose by nearly 36 per cent globally after the Paris Agreement was introduced, its findings suggest. In 2023 alone, heat was linked to a record 710,000…