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- The British Medical Journal says the rise in deaths from extreme heat caused by climate change needs to be declared a 'global health emergen.
- In a report released Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet ahead of the COP31 climate summit in November, 146 researchers from.
- According to the report, a record 710,000 deaths occurred due to extreme heat in 2023, of which more than 70 percent were related to climate.
The British Medical Journal says the rise in deaths from extreme heat caused by climate change needs to be declared a 'global health emergency' so that governments prioritize tackling the threat in their policies.
In a report released Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet ahead of the COP31 climate summit in November, 146 researchers from 30 countries assessed the impact of climate change on the health of populations around the world.
According to the report, a record 710,000 deaths occurred due to extreme heat in 2023, of which more than 70 percent were related to climate change caused by human activities.
Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown, a research project on health and climate change, told a news conference that 3 million people died from extreme heat worldwide in the eight years following the Paris Agreement in 2015.
According to him, "This number is almost equal to the entire population of Wales, as if the heat had wiped out the population of an entire country in eight years."
