Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks

KL Ebi, A Capon, P Berry, C Broderick, R de Dear… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Hot ambient conditions and associated heat stress can increase mortality and morbidity, as
well as increase adverse pregnancy outcomes and negatively affect mental health. High …

Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

S Whitmee, R Green, K Belesova, S Hassan, S Cuevas… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming

CM Powis, D Byrne, Z Zobel, KN Gassert, AC Lute… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
As our planet warms, a critical research question is when and where temperatures will
exceed the limits of what the human body can tolerate. Past modeling efforts have …

Increasing heat‐stress inequality in a warming climate

MR Alizadeh, JT Abatzoglou, JF Adamowski… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation is key to minimizing heatwaves' societal burden; however, our understanding of
adaptation capacity across the socioeconomic spectrum is incomplete. We demonstrate that …

Observations and projections of heat waves in South America

S Feron, RR Cordero, A Damiani, PJ Llanillo… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Although Heat Waves (HWs) are expected to increase due to global warming, they
are a regional phenomenon that demands for local analyses. In this paper, we assess four …

China's carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

X Lu, D Tong, K He - Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023 - Springer
China is the largest developing economy and carbon dioxide emitter in the world, the carbon
neutrality goal of which will have a profound influence on the mitigation pathway of global …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature-related excess mortality in German cities at 2 C and higher degrees of global warming

V Huber, L Krummenauer, C Peña-Ortiz, S Lange… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Investigating future changes in temperature-related mortality as a function of
global mean temperature (GMT) rise allows for the evaluation of policy-relevant climate …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of outdoor exposure to heat in three South Asian cities

C Jacobs, T Singh, G Gorti, U Iftikhar, S Saeed… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Low socio-economic status has been widely recognized as a significant factor in enhancing
a person's vulnerability to climate change including vulnerability to changes in temperature …