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The 2022 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the mercy of fossil fuels

The Lancet
Authors:
The Lancet
Year Published:
2022
Resource Type:
Evaluations and Research
Language:
English

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown is published as the world confronts profound and concurrent systemic shocks. Countries and health systems continue to contend with the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a persistent fossil fuel overdependence has pushed the world into global energy and cost-of-living crises. As these crises unfold, climate change escalates unabated. Its worsening impacts are increasingly affecting the foundations of human health and well-being, exacerbating the vulnerability of the world's populations to concurrent health threats.