Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change

2025/09/17 by Colin J. Carlson, Dann Mitchell, Rory Gibb +11 · 22 citations
Environmental Science · Health Professions · #Air Quality and Health Impacts #Attribution #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Climate change #Climate system #Global Health Care Issues #Global health #Global warming #Human health #Political economy of climate change #Public health

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02399-7

published in Nature Climate Change 15(10), 1052-1055 (Nature Portfolio)

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Abstract

Over the last decade, attribution science has shown that climate change is responsible for substantial death, disability and illness. However, health impact attribution studies have focused disproportionately on populations in high-income countries, and have mostly quantified the health outcomes of heat and extreme weather. A clearer picture of the global burden of climate change could encourage policymakers to treat the climate crisis like a public health emergency.

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