Climate health harms outpace action, prompting calls for global health emergency
The 2026 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change finds that many of the health risks and harms of climate change grew faster in the decade since the Paris Agreement was introduced (2016–2025) than in the decade before it (2006–2015).
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Lancet Countdown 2026 findings and calls for a global health emergency, consistent with Report 1.
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