Abstract:
A little over a decade ago, the Lancet
Climate Commission concluded that
anthropogenic climate change threatens to
undermine the past 50 years of gains in
public health and, conversely, that a
comprehensive response to climate change
could be ‘the greatest global health oppor-
tunity of the 21 st century’. 1 In a recent
review, experts quantified the impact of
climate change on health and estimated
that heatwaves between 2000 and 2016
had resulted in 5.3% lower outdoor
manual productivity and that economic
losses from climate change related events
in 2016 alone totalled almost
US$129 billion