CUSSH researchers identified increased vulnerability in agriculture since 2017 in terms of productivity and health impacts.
This annual summary of climate change global health impacts revealed:
Increasing association between climate change and its associated health impacts in research and policymaking
Increase in a range of climate-change-related health hazards
Energy related emissions rebounded 6% after a 5% Covid-19 decrease
The Lancet medical journal summarises annual health indicators affected by climate change within five main categories. The indicators were measured before [1], during [2] and after [3] the Covid-19 pandemic, with annual records focused on three dimensions:
[1] Prior to the pandemic the report focused on the experiences of a child born in 2019.
[2] The 2020 report applied the lessons learned from tackling Covid-19 in the short term to improve climate change health outcomes in long term.
[3] In 2022, the growing awareness of the health dimensions of climate change was highlighted as an opportunity to “enable an accelerated response”.
This brief describes changes in trends of these health indicators over the 2019-2022 period.
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