The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

Watts, Nick, Amman, Makus, Arnell, Nigel, Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja, Belesova, Kristine, Boykoff, Maxwell, Byass, Peter, Cai, Wenjia, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid, Capstick, Stuart, Chambers, Jonathan, Dalin, Carole, Daly, Meaghan, Dasandi, Niheer, Davies, Michael, Drummond, Paul, Dubrow, Robert, Ebi, Kristie L, Eckelman, Matthew, Ekins, Paul et al., (2019). The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. The Lancet, 394(10211), 1836-1878

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Author	Watts, Nick Amman, Makus Arnell, Nigel Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja Belesova, Kristine Boykoff, Maxwell Byass, Peter Cai, Wenjia Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid Capstick, Stuart Chambers, Jonathan Dalin, Carole Daly, Meaghan Dasandi, Niheer Davies, Michael Drummond, Paul Dubrow, Robert Ebi, Kristie L Eckelman, Matthew Ekins, Paul Escobar, Luis E Fernandez Montoya, Lucia Georgeson, Lucien Graham, Hilary Haggar, Paul Hamilton, Ian Hartinger, Stella Hess, Jeremy Kelman, Ilan, Kiesewetter, Gregor Kjellstrom, Tord Kniveton, Dominic Lemke, Bruno Liu, Yang Lott, Melissa Lowe, Rachel Sewe, Maquins Odhiambo Martinez-Urtaza, Jamie Maslin, Mark McAllister, Lucy McGushin, Alice Jankin Mikhaylov, Slava Milner, James Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar Morrissey, Karyn Murray, Kris Munzert, Simon Nilsson, Maria Neville, Tara Oreszczyn, Tadj Owfi, Fereidoon Pearman, Olivia Pencheon, David Phung, Dung Pye, Steve Quinn, Ruth Rabbaniha, Mahnaz Robinson, Elizabeth Rocklöv, Joacim Semenza, Jan C Sherman, Jodi Shumake-Guillemot, Joy Tabatabaei, Meisam Taylor, Jonathon Trinanes, Joaquin Wilkinson, Paul Costello, Anthony Gong, Peng Montgomery, Hugh
Title	The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
Appearing in	The Lancet
Volume	394
Issue No.	10211
Publication Date	2019-11-13
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Elsevier Ltd.
Start page	1836
End page	1878
Language	eng
Abstract	The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement. The 2019 report presents an annual update of 41 indicators across five key domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. The report represents the findings and consensus of 35 leading academic institutions and UN agencies from every continent. Each year, the methods and data that underpin the Lancet Countdown's indicators are further developed and improved, with updates described at each stage of this report. The collaboration draws on the world-class expertise of climate scientists; ecologists; mathematicians; engineers; energy, food, and transport experts; economists; social and political scientists; public health professionals; and doctors, to generate the quality and diversity of data required. The science of climate change describes a range of possible futures, which are largely dependent on the degree of action or inaction in the face of a warming world. The policies implemented will have far-reaching effects in determining these eventualities, with the indicators tracked here monitoring both the present-day effects of climate change, as well as the worldwide response. Understanding these decisions as a choice between one of two pathways—one that continues with the business as usual response and one that redirects to a future that remains “well below 2°C”—helps to bring the importance of recognising the effects of climate change and the necessary response to the forefront. Evidence provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration clarifies the degree and magnitude of climate change experienced today and contextualises these two pathways.
UNBIS Thesaurus	CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH
Keyword	Adaptation Child vulnerability Policy
Copyright Holder	The Authors
Copyright Year	2019
Copyright type	Creative commons
ISSN	01406736
DOI	10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32596-6

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