Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change

Project Summary 

Climate change is undermining the foundations of good health; threatening the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the hospitals and clinics we depend on. However, the response to climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century. 

The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change brings together 35 leading academic institutions and UN agencies from every continent to monitor this transition from threat to opportunity. We track annual indicators of progress, empowering the health profession and supporting policymakers to accelerate their response.

Partners

1. Cardiff University
2. Centre Virchow-Villermé
3. Emory University
4. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5. European Centre for Environment and Human Health
6. Hertie School
7. Imperial College London
8. INDEPTH Network
9. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
10. International Livestock Research Institute
11. Iran University of Medical Sciences
12. Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute
13. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
14. NHS Sustainable Development Unit
15. The Grantham Institute
16. Tsinghua University
17. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
18. Umea University
19. United Nations University
20. Universiti Teknologi MARA
21. University of Birmingham
22. University of Colorado-Boulder
23. University of Geneva
24. University College London (Energy Institute; and the Institutes of Global Health, for Sustainable Resources, for Human Health and Performance, and for Environmental Design and Engineering; the Departments of Geography, Office of the Vice Provost for Research)
25. University of Exeter
26. University of Reading
27. University of Sussex
28. University of Sydney
29. University of Washington
30. University of York
31. Virginia Tech
32. World Health Organization
33. World Meteorological Organization
34. World Bank Group
35. Yale University