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

(2018) The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health. Lancet. pp. 581-630. ISSN 0140-6736

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Abstract

The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, 1 and the health implications of these actions. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, 2 which concluded that anthropogenic climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health, and conversely, that a comprehensive response to climate change could be "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The Lancet Countdown is a collaboration between 24 academic institutions and intergovernmental organisations based in every continent and with representation from a wide range of disciplines. The collaboration includes climate scientists, ecologists, economists, engineers, experts in energy, food, and transport systems, geographers, mathematicians, social and political scientists, public health professionals, and doctors. It reports annual indicators across five sections: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. The key messages from the 40 indicators in the Lancet Countdown's 2017 report are summarised below.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: greenhouse-gas emissions colorectal-cancer meat consumption food security air-quality risk mortality heat temperature livestock General & Internal Medicine
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Page Range: pp. 581-630
Journal or Publication Title: Lancet
Journal Index: ISI
Volume: 391
Number: 10120
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32464-9
ISSN: 0140-6736
Depositing User: مهندس مهدی شریفی
URI: http://eprints.bmsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/3892

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