http://www.lancetcountdown.org/the-report/
The 2018 Report of the Lancet Countdown
The Lancet Countdown's 2018 report tracks 41 indicators across five key
domains in health and climate change, continuously strengthening its
methods, data and analysis. It arrives at three key conclusions:
IMPACT: Present day changes in heat waves labour capacity,
vector-borne disease, and food security provide early warning of
compounded and overwhelming impacts expected if temperature continues to
rise.
DELAY: A lack of progress in reducing emissions and building
adaptive capacity threatens both human lives and the viability of the
national health systems they depend on, with the potential to disrupt
core public health infrastructure and overwhelm health services.
OPPORTUNITY: Despite these delays, trends in a number of sectors
see the beginning of a low-carbon transition, and it is clear that the
nature and scale of the response to climate change will be the
determining factor in shaping the health of nations for centuries to come.
Indicators and Headline findings:
Climate Change Impacts, Exposures and Vulnerability
Adaptation Planning and Resilience for Health
Mitigation Actions and Health Co-Benefits
Finance and Economics
Public and Political Engagement
Policy Resources include Briefing Notes for policymakers, including
those aimed directly at the EU, US, UK, China, Australia, Canada,
Brazil, India and more.
[As the Ontario (Doug Ford) government plans to blow off the next 4
years doing nothing of substance on the climate change file (having
walked away from market solutions like cap-and-trade and a carbon tax,
instead preferring a socialist approach to pick losers and bigger losers
while giving away its financial manoeuvring room), let's take note of
the information available to our laggard 'leaders' today to raise in
future when they claim they did not know the importance of responding to
climate change now.
Much more available at this resource from the Lancet.]
