A Lancet study calls for a global health emergency declaration due to climate change
A global report found 710,000 heat-related deaths in 2023, with over 70% attributed to human-caused climate change. Heat-related deaths rose sharply over recent decades, and climate-related health harms are accelerating worldwide. The world lost $1.07 trillion in potential income from heat in 2025.
- The report found 710,000 heat-related deaths in 2023.
- The report calls for climate change to be declared a global health emergency.
- Extreme drought affected nearly 52 percent of the world's land for at least one month in 2025.
- Health harms from climate change grew faster in the last decade than the decade before the Paris Agreement.
- The world lost an estimated 1.07 trillion US dollars in potential income from heat in 2025.
- Cleaner air prevented an estimated 323,000 deaths yearly in at least 77 countries since 2016.
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