Health
Climate change is being counted not just in degrees but in lives lost
The 2025 Lancet Countdown report warns that escalating climate
inaction is driving a global health crisis.
The world’s failure to rein in global warming is exacting a deadly toll on human health, with heat-related deaths up 23% since the 1990s and now claiming an estimated 546,000 lives each year, according to the 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.
“This year’s health stocktake paints a bleak and undeniable picture of devastating health harms reaching all corners of the world – with record-breaking...

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