The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-4436, Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Berry, H., Bouley, T., Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Cai, W., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., Daly, M., Dasandi, N., Davies, M., Depoux, A., Dominguez-Salas, P., Drummond, P., Ebi, K. L., Ekins, P., Montoya, L. F., Fischer, H., Georgeson, L., Grace, D., Graham, H., Hamilton, I., Hartinger, S., Hess, J., Kelman, I., Kiesewetter, G., Kjellstrom, T., Kniveton, D., Lemke, B., Liang, L., Lott, M., Lowe, R., Sewe, M. O., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., Mikhaylov, S. J., Milner, J., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrissey, K., Murray, K., Nilsson, M., Neville, T., Oreszczyn, T., Owfi, F., Pearman, O., Pencheon, D., Pye, S., Rabbaniha, M., Robinson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-0183, Rocklöv, J., Saxer, O., Schütte, S., Semenza, J. C., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Steinbach, R., Tabatabaei, M., Tomei, J., Trinanes, J., Wheeler, N., Wilkinson, P., Gong, P., Montgomery, H. and Costello, A. (2018) The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. The Lancet, 392 (10163). pp. 2479-2514. ISSN 01406736 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32594-7

Abstract/Summary

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change. The Lancet Countdown tracks 41 indicators across five domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; finance and economics; and public and political engagement. This report is the product of a collaboration of 27 leading academic institutions, the UN, and intergovernmental agencies from every continent. The report draws on world-class expertise from climate scientists, ecologists, mathematicians, geographers, engineers, energy, food, livestock, and transport experts, economists, social and political scientists, public health professionals, and doctors. The Lancet Countdown's work builds on decades of research in this field, and was first proposed in the 2015 Lancet Commission on health and climate change, which documented the human impacts of climate change and provided ten global recommendations to respond to this public health emergency and secure the public health benefits available.

Additional Information	The response to a response to this article can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673619311341?via%3Dihub. Full citation: Watts, N., Gong, P., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Costello, A. and Robinson, E. J. Z. (2019) Health and climate change – Authors' reply. The Lancet.
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Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Walker Institute Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Agri-Food Economics & Marketing Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Additional Information	The response to a response to this article can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673619311341?via%3Dihub. Full citation: Watts, N., Gong, P., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Costello, A. and Robinson, E. J. Z. (2019) Health and climate change – Authors' reply. The Lancet.
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