"Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. It says the world's addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating."
"This [report] paints a bleak and undeniable picture of the devastating health harms reaching all corners of the world. The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction. We're seeing millions of deaths occurring needlessly every year because of our delay in mitigating climate change and our delay in adapting to the climate change that cannot be avoided. We're seeing key leaders, governments and corporations backsliding on climate commitments and putting people increasingly in harm's way."
"Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuel users and producers in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites. Reduced coal burning has saved about 400 lives a day in the last decade, the report says, and renewable energy production is rising fast."
Rising global heat kills about one person every minute worldwide. Fossil fuel use produces toxic air pollution, increases wildfires, and expands the spread of vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever. Millions of deaths occur each year because of persistent global heating and inadequate mitigation and adaptation. Heat-related deaths surged 23% since the 1990s, averaging 546,000 annually between 2012 and 2021. Governments provided $2.5bn per day in direct fossil-fuel subsidies in 2023, while high temperatures reduced labor income by a similar amount. Reduced coal burning saved roughly 400 lives per day over the last decade, and renewable energy production is rising. Continued financing and exploitation of fossil fuels will escalate health harms.
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