📢 Be the first to hear the latest findings on health and climate change! Register for our launch event: bit.ly/LancetCountdown2024 The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change publishes in The Lancet this Wednesday, 30 October. Tracking the relationship between health and climate change across five key domains and 53 indicators, the report reveals the most up-to-date assessment of the links between health and climate change. Join distinguished experts in exploring the findings at our virtual launch event ⬇️ 🗣️ Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand 🗣️ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of World Health Organization 🗣️ Oyun Sanjaasuren, Director of Partnerships and Resource Mobilization at Green Climate Fund 🗣️ Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief at The Lancet 🗣️ Marina Belén Romanello, PhD, Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown 🗣️ Gina McCarthy, Managing Co-Chair of America Is All In and first White House National Climate Advisor 🗣️ Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of Global Center on Adaptation 🗣️ Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at World Health Organization 🗣️ Dr. Githinji Gitahi, Group CEO at AMREF 🗣️ Omnia El Omrani, MD, COP28 Health Envoy and First Youth Envoy to COP27 President
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
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Tracking the connections between health and climate change, with strategic and financial support from the Wellcome Trust
About us
Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years of gains for public health, intensifying heatwaves and extreme weather events, worsening flood and drought, altering the spread of infectious diseases, and exacerbating poverty and mental ill-health. Crucially, the response to climate change brings immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets, and more liveable cities. The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change exists to monitor this transition from threat to opportunity. We are a collaboration of over 120 leading experts from 35 universities and UN agencies across the globe, bringing together climate scientists, engineers, energy, economists, political scientists, public health professionals, and doctors. Each year our findings are published annually in medical journal The Lancet ahead of the UN climate change negotiations. Our data makes clear how climate change is affecting our health, the consequences of delayed action and the health benefits of a robust response. The Lancet Countdown works to ensure that health is at the centre of how governments understand and respond to climate change. This ranges from ensuring policymakers have access to high-quality evidence-based guidance, through to providing the health profession with the tools they need to improve public health.
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Employees at The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
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Marina Belén Romanello, PhD
Executive Director at Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
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Meisam Tabatabaei
Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
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Aditya Vyas
Public health physician
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Hannah Whitcombe
Communications Manager at the Lancet Countdown
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🗣️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️ We are thrilled to announce that Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand and Chair of the Lancet Countdown Board will be joined by Gina McCarthy, former EPA Administrator and White House Climate Advisor, at our 2024 Report launch event. Bringing experience from every level of government, these energised leaders will sit down for a special 'fireside chat' to discuss all things climate change and health, and the path ahead, just days ahead of the US election results. Don't miss the launch event on 30 October - register now: https://lnkd.in/exX2d9_k
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The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a super valuable resource for global health and climate advocates, communicators, campaigners and policy makers. Super helpful summary from last year's report from David McNair here - look out for the 2024 edition soon!
HOW WILL CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECT YOUR BODY? A landmark report from The Lancet lays it all out. Drawing on 114 scientists and health experts the Countdown report shows just how multidimensional the climate crisis is for our health. POLLUTION 💨 >>1·9 million deaths that occur annually from outdoor fine particulate matter derived from dirty fuels. >>78 deaths per 100 000 people associated with exposure to indoor air pollution. >>460 000 deaths are caused annually by transport-derived PM2·5 pollution. HEAT🔥 >>Heat-related deaths of people older than 65 years increased by 85% in the last 20 years. >>Heatwaves and droughts in 2021 resulted in 127 million more people experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity compared with 1981–2010. >>If temperatures rise to just under 2°C, annual heat-related deaths are projected to increase by 370% by midcentury. >>The past 8 years were the warmest ever registered. July, 2023, was the hottest month ever recorded. >>In 2022, 62,000 people died in Europe in 2022. >>Wildfires scorched Europe, South America and China YOUR MONEY 💰 >>Economic losses from extreme weather events amounted to US$264 billion in 2022. Heat exposure led to global potential income losses worth $863 billion >>Labour capacity loss resulting from heat exposure hit low and medium with income losses equivalent to 6·1% and 3·8% of (GDP). YOUR LOCAL HEALTH CLINIC 🏥👩⚕️ >>27% of surveyed cities declared concerns over their health systems being overwhelmed by the impacts of climate change. >>For lack of money cities in low income countries are most likely not to undertake a climate change risk assessment. YOUR HOME 🏠🏚️ >>Extreme floods affected 33 million people in Pakistan and 3·2 million people in Nigeria YOUR STOMACH 🥗🌯 >>A record drought in the Greater Horn of Africa worsened food insecurity which now affects 46·3 million people >>Heatwaves alone could lead to 524·9 million people experiencing hunger aggravating the global risk of malnutrition. YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM 🤮 >>As sea temperatures rise, the length of coastline suitable for Vibrio pathogens (which cause cholera) will expand by up to 25% meaning more food poisoning from fish. >>More mosquitoes are breeding in urban areas leading to transmission of mosquito-borne disease. >>Transmission potential for dengue will be up 37% by midcentury. ON THE PLUS SIDE, people are starting to take note: >>24% of all climate change newspaper articles in 2022 referring to health >>95% of updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement now referring to health Alan Dangour Wellcome Trust Steven Hoffman Global Public Investment Network Charlie Weller Raj Kumar Chris Elias Gargee Ghosh Claudia Romo Edelman Charles Michel Judith Rodin Jean Van Wetter Bård Vegar Solhjell The ONE Campaign European Council on Foreign Relations John-Arne Røttingen https://lnkd.in/eK7yXnxw
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🗣️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️ Hear from World Health Organization Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the Lancet Countdown's 2024 Report launch event. Action on climate change and health recognised as a top priority by WHO. Earlier this year, he said: "The threats to health from climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss are not hypothetical risks in the future. They are right here and right now, which makes health the most compelling reason for climate action." We are looking forward to hearing his remarks as we release the latest evidence on health and climate change in The Lancet on 30 October 2024. Register for our launch event now: https://lnkd.in/exX2d9_k
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Do you know anyone who would be interested in the latest evidence on the connections between health and climate change? Tag them in the comments below 👇 We are publishing the Lancet Countdown 2024 Report on Health and Climate Change in The Lancet on 30 October, days before the UN’s annual climate change summit, COP29. Be the first to hear the findings and analysis from experts at our launch event! Register now: https://lnkd.in/exX2d9_k
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On October 9, we will be hosting "The Climate of the Future: Can we handle the heat?" panel event. We will be bringing together climate scientists from UNSW Climate Change Research Centre and The Australian National University and our heat-health experts from the Heat and Health Research Centre at the University of Sydney to discuss how these disciplines, which have traditionally operated independently of each other, can be brought together to develop more robust projections of future heat-health impacts with climate change. The panel will be Chaired by Melissa Lyne and feature: -Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick: Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU -Steven Sherwood: UNSW Climate Change Research Centre -Jem Cheng: CIHR Fellow, Heat and Health Research Centre, USYD -Ollie Jay: Director, Heat and Health Research Centre, USYD The event will be co-hosted by the Heat and Health Research Centre, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), The ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Time: 3:30-5pm, October 9, 2024 Location: Susan Wakil Health Building, Camperdown Campus, University of Sydney Networking drinks will follow at 5-6pm Please register now while spots are still available: https://lnkd.in/gnE5JHYe Shanta Barley, Professor Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE, Benjamin Eggleton, Stephen Conaty, Emma Bacon, Judith Bruinsma, Kelly Gee, Kirsten Andrews, Medicine and Health - University of Sydney, Global Heat Health Information Network, Michelle Isles, The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, Climate and Health Alliance,
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🚨 REGISTER NOW 🚨 🌎🧑⚕️ The Lancet Countdown's 2024 Report will publish on 30 October, documenting the latest global evidence on health and climate change. Register now for our launch event to be the first to hear the latest findings and discussion from experts ➡️ https://lnkd.in/exX2d9_k
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A few weeks ago, Lancet Countdown Latinoamérica participated in a workshop at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)'s headquarters in Brasilia, building towards #COP30 in Brazil. See more ⬇️
Hace unas semanas, participamos en un taller en la sede de Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) en Brasilia, donde colaboramos en el desarrollo de proyectos conjuntos sobre cambio climático y salud, con miras a la #COP30 en Brasil. Esta iniciativa fortalece la cooperación regional en temas de cambio climático y fomenta el crecimiento de comunidades de práctica regionales. ¡Estamos entusiasmados por los resultados que esta colaboración pueda generar!
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Executive Director at Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
Sobering words from United Nations's Antonio Guterres in today's press briefing: "Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere. Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic (...) The disease is the madness of incinerating our only home. The disease is the addiction to fossil fuels. The disease is climate inaction. Leaders across the board must wake up and step up. (...) Countries must phase-out fossil fuels – fast and fairly. They must end new coal projects. The G20 must shift fossil fuel subsidies to renewables and support vulnerable countries and communities." Watch below:
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Get to know the remarkable Director of Lancet Countdown Latinoamérica, Stella Hartinger, interviewed by Elisa Pucu for The Lancet Regional Health ⬇️
Regional Director of Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change for Latin America / Co-director of Latin American Center for Excellence on Climate Change and Health - CLIMA
The Lancet Regional Health Americas, me entrevistó para hablar sobre cambio climático y salud. Pero hablamos de un poquito de todo. Ojalá les guste.
Stella Hartinger: exploring the intersection of climate change and human health
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