The World Meteorological Organization has warned that climate change threatens to reverse healthcare improvements around the world.
The report emphasises the need for early warning systems for extreme heat, pollen monitoring to help allergy sufferers and satellite surveillance for climate-sensitive diseases. "As the world warms at a faster rate than at any point in recorded history, human heath is on the frontline,"the report adds.
He added that the onset of El Nino in 2023 will greatly increase the likelihood of breaking temperature records further, triggering more extreme heat in many parts of the world and in the ocean. Extreme heat conditions during the summer of 2022 were estimated to have claimed over 60,000 excess deaths in 35 European countries.