Climate change is a health emergency

Climate change is not the biggest global health threat.

The UCL Lancet Commission on climate change and health (May 16, p 1693) concludes: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. In this report, the authors emphasise not only the immediacy and gravity of this threat, but also the directness: while the poorest in the world will be the fi rst aff ected, none will be spared. The escalating carbon footprint of the devel...

Climate Change and Children’s Health: A Commentary

This commentary describes the likely impacts on children's health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. It describes likely climate change scenarios, why children are more vulnerable than older people to these changes, and what to expect in terms of diseases (e.g., infections, asthma) and problems (e.g., malnutrition, mental illness). The c...

Climate Change and Human Health

Climate change impacts on human health span the trajectory of time—past, present, and future. The key finding from the Working Group II, Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that health impacts due to climate change have already occurred in the past, are currently occurring and will continue to occur, at least for the foreseeable future, e...

Climate Change and Health Effects

Climate change and animal health