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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 exists to monitor the links between public health and climate change, and the transition from health threat to opportunity. We are a global collaboration of over 300 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe, bringing together climate scientists, engineers, energy specialists, economists, political scientists, public health professionals and doctors.

Each year, the Lancet Countdown publish findings in medical journal The Lancet ahead of the UN climate change negotiations. Our data makes clear how climate change is affecting our health, the consequences of delayed action and the health benefits of a robust response.


Key Project Information

Dates: Ongoing

Principal Investigator: Prof Anthony Costello 

Co PIs: Nicholas Watts, Hugh Montgomery, Peng Gong

Location: UK

Funding: Wellcome Trust 

Contact: m.romanello@ucl.ac.uk

Website: lancetcountdown.org

Research Team

Marina Romanello - (Executive Director)

Megan O’Hare (Programme Manager)

Vesna Milanovic (Project Administrator)

Hannah Whitcombe (Communications Manager)

Maria Walawender (Research Fellow)


Publications

The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action

The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

2017: The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

2016: The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change


Presentations

Lancet Countdown 2022 global launch event


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