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Climate change has already affected the physical and mental health of people in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] The country's climate is becoming warmer, with drier summers and wetter winters. [3] Health threats due to climate change in the UK include heatwaves, floods, storms, air pollution and new infectious diseases, among others. [4]
The effects of climate change on human health are profound because they increase heat-related illnesses and deaths, respiratory diseases, and the spread of infectious diseases. There is widespread agreement among researchers, health professionals and organizations that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. [23 ...
Healthcare is a significant contributor to climate change and environmental degradation. According to estimates, healthcare is responsible for approximately 4.4% of global net emissions, [7] this means if the worlds healthcare systems were one country, it would be the fifth-largest emitter on the planet.
The climate change policy of the United States has major impacts on global climate change and global climate change mitigation.This is because the United States is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world after China, and is among the countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions per person in the world.
Probability that countries achieve their Paris Agreement Goals according to their nationally determined contributions (left: entire world; right: Europe only) [1]. The nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are commitments that countries make to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as part of climate change mitigation.
Climate change will equally affect the right to life through an increase in hunger and malnutrition and related disorder impacting child growth and development, respiratory morbidity and ground-level ozone. [34] Rising sea levels is one of the flow-on effects of climate change, resulting from warming water and melting ice sheets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a raft of new climate change risk disclosure requirements Wednesday morning in a 3–2 vote that is nearly certain to see a legal challenge.
Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...