@article{WattsJankinMunzertetal., author = {Watts, Nick and Jankin, Slava and Munzert, Simon and Amann, Markus and Arnell, Nigel and Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja and Beagley, Jessica and Belesova, Kristine and Boykoff, Maxwell and Byass, Peter and Cai, Wenjia and Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid and Capstick, Stuart and Chambers, Jonathan and Coleman, Samantha and Dalin, Carole and Daly, Meaghan and Dasandi, Niheer}, title = {The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises}, series = {The Lancet}, volume = {397}, journal = {The Lancet}, number = {10269}, doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32290-X}, pages = {129 -- 170}, abstract = {The world has already warmed by more than 1.2C compared with preindustrial levels, resulting in profound, immediate, and rapidly worsening health effects, and moving dangerously close to the agreed limit of maintaining temperatures "well below 2C". These health impacts are seen on every continent, with the ongoing spread of dengue virus across South America, the cardiovascular and respiratory effects of record heatwaves and wildfires in Australia, western North America, and western Europe, and the undernutrition and mental health effects of floods and droughts in China, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and South Africa. In the long term, climate change threatens the very foundations of human health and wellbeing, with the Global Risks Report registering climate change as one of the five most damaging or probable global risks every year for the past decade.}, language = {en} } @article{JankinWattsAmannetal., author = {Jankin, Slava and Watts, Nick and Amann, Markus and Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja and Belesova, Kristine and Bouley, Timothy and Boykoff, Maxwell and Byass, Peter and Cai, Wenjia and Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid and Chambers, Jonathan and Cox, Peter M and Daly, Meaghan and Dasandi, Niheer and Davies, Michael and Depledge, Michael and Depoux, Anneliese and Dominguez-Salas, Paula and Drummond, Paul and Ekins, Paul and Flathault, Antoine and Frumkin, Howard and Georgeson, Lucien and Ghanei, Mostafa and Grace, Delia and Graham, Hilary and Grojsman, R{\´e}becca and Haines, Andy and Hamilton, Ian and Hartinger, Stella and Johnson, Anne and Kelman, Ilan and Kiesewetter, Gregor and Kniveton, Dominic and Liang, Lu and Lott, Melissa and Lowe, Robert and Mace, Georgina and Sewe, Maquins Odhiambo and Maslin, Mark and Milner, James and Latifi, Ali Mohammad and Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar and Morrissey, Karyn and Murray, Kris and Neville, Tara and Nilsson, Maria and Oreszczyn, Tadj and Owfi, Fereidoon and Pencheon, David and Pye, Steve and Rabbaniha, Mahnaz and Robinson, Elizabeth and Rockl{\"o}v, Joacim and Sch{\"u}tte, Stefanie and Shumake-Guillemot, Joy and Steinbach, Rebecca and Tabatabaei, Meisam and Wheeler, Nicola and Wilkinson, Paul and Gong, Peng and Montgomery, Hugh and Costello, Anthony}, title = {The Lancet countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health}, series = {The Lancet}, volume = {391}, journal = {The Lancet}, number = {10120}, doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32464-9}, pages = {581 -- 630}, 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, and the health implications of these actions. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, 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".}, language = {en} }