Climate inaction “killing people now” and costing trillions, new WHO-Lancet Report finds

A new global report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change has issued a dire warning that failure to act on climate change is a costly crisis as climate-related deaths and economic losses are on the rise.

The report, which was released on Wednesday, reveals that heat-related deaths have surged by nearly 23 percent since the 1990s, an indication of how global warming is directly threatening public health, with heat-related mortality now claiming an average of 546 000 lives annually.

WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Care, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, said the worsening climate crisis is also a health emergency that demands urgent global attention.

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