Experts Call on WHO to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency Following New Lancet Countdown Report

A new report from the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published in the BMJ, urges the World Health Organization (WHO) to formally declare climate change a global health emergency. The report highlights that health harms from global heating are accelerating, with heat linked to a record 710,000 estimated deaths in 2023, 71.5% of which were driven by climate change.