The World Health Organization, which says climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, has called for the issue to be"front and centre" in negotiations at the COP27 summit being held in Egypt.
That is widely thought to be a"massively conservative estimate" of the true toll, partly because it only comes from four sources, said Jess Beagley, policy lead at the NGO Global Climate and Health Alliance."As climate change worsens, we're going to see the biggest threats to human health increase." And air pollution contributed to 3.3 million deaths in 2020, 1.2 million of which were directly related to fossil fuel emissions, the report found.
Projecting into the future, a new platform launched last week by the United Nations Development Programme and the Climate Impact Lab warned that global warming could become deadlier than cancer in some parts of the world. The platform also gave specific local projections for more than 24,000 regions worldwide. Under the worst-case scenario, it found that in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, climate change-related deaths could double those from all cancers by 2100.
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