Health risk linked to climate change

Climate change could have “potentially catastrophic effects” for human health, undermining all the health gains in the last half century, experts have warned.

But tackling climate change by cutting emissions from energy, transport and agriculture could provide a great global health opportunity, with benefits ranging from improved diets to fewer deaths and disease caused by air pollution.

Experts who contributed to The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change said funding to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 2°C, seen as a threshold above which the worst impacts are expected, was a good investment.