extreme weather

It is now clear that anthropogenic climate change is having a negative impact on human health. In this paper, we... Read more

By integrating climate and health information, climate services for health provide robust decision-support tools. The Lancet Countdown monitoring system uses global climate reanalyses products to track annual changes in a set of health-related outcomes. Read more

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This report consists of written evidence to the UK Parliament Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on environmental change and food security. It states that UK’s Food Strategy of 2022 does not sufficiently factor climate risks into building resilient domestic food supply chains and suggests measures that the Government could take to increase food security while providing climate mitigation and health co-benefits. Read more

One of the major consequences of climate change is the forced movement of people due to changing weather patterns and the long-term degradation of ecosystems. This commentary analyses existing policy responses to climate migration worldwide and identifies the gaps. Read more

The distinction between loss and damage from climate change and the ‘Loss and Damage’ policy debate Loss and damage refer... Read more

With a brutal heatwave likely to lead to thousands of preventable deaths in the UK and other European countries over the next few days, Bob Ward urges a change in mindset to this increasingly common and deadly form of extreme weather. Read more

The Post-Event Review Capability (PERC) methodology assesses the impact of weather events in search of practical recommendations for reducing future damage. Read more

The authors of this paper use childhood exposures to disasters as natural experiments inducing variations in adulthood outcomes Read more

This research in practice article is a reflective narrative documenting how we have developed CCIEVIs as a discrete set of quantifiable indicators that are updated annually to provide the most recent picture of climate change’s impacts on human health. Read more