Professor Kristie Ebi Discusses The Lancet Series, "Heat and Health" (November 23rd)
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The climate crisis threatens human health in innumerable ways including injury from extreme weather events, respiratory illness, zoonoses, water-borne, vector borne, and non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, behavioral health and psychosocial problems and finally heat related illnesses and death. Climate crisis-related health effects are and will be particularly be hard felt by the elderly and children and within minority communities. For example, The Lancet's most recent “Countdown on Health and Climate Change” report found heat-related deaths in people older than 65 reached a record high of 345,000 in 2019, or 81% higher than the 2000-2005 average. Children under one year of age experienced an estimated 626 million additional person days of heatwave exposure in 2020 comparted to a 1986-2005 baseline average. Despite these numbers, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report found countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or pledges by governments to reduce their carbon emissions, found that only 13% of NDCs commit to quantifying the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction policies. Listeners may recall I interviewed Professor Ebi in November 2018 concerning the UN IPCC's landmark report, "Global Warming at 1.5º C." At:
Professor Kristie Ebi Discusses The Lancet Series, "Heat and Health" (November 23rd)
Professor Kristie Ebi Discusses The Lancet…
Professor Kristie Ebi Discusses The Lancet Series, "Heat and Health" (November 23rd)
The climate crisis threatens human health in innumerable ways including injury from extreme weather events, respiratory illness, zoonoses, water-borne, vector borne, and non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, behavioral health and psychosocial problems and finally heat related illnesses and death. Climate crisis-related health effects are and will be particularly be hard felt by the elderly and children and within minority communities. For example, The Lancet's most recent “Countdown on Health and Climate Change” report found heat-related deaths in people older than 65 reached a record high of 345,000 in 2019, or 81% higher than the 2000-2005 average. Children under one year of age experienced an estimated 626 million additional person days of heatwave exposure in 2020 comparted to a 1986-2005 baseline average. Despite these numbers, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report found countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or pledges by governments to reduce their carbon emissions, found that only 13% of NDCs commit to quantifying the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction policies. Listeners may recall I interviewed Professor Ebi in November 2018 concerning the UN IPCC's landmark report, "Global Warming at 1.5º C." At: