Yearly heat-related deaths to see fivefold rise by mid-century, climate inaction threatening public health: Lancet report

The report, however, found few signs of the urgently needed progress, in a world still bound to fossil fuel ambitions and thus, called for "a people-centred transformation: putting health at the heart of climate action". The pace and scale of mitigation efforts continued to fall very far short of those required to safeguard people's safety, with current policies putting the world on track for a potentially catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius of heating by 2100, the report warned.
Source: The Economic Times - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news