The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline

Romanello, Marina, Walawender, Maria, Hsu, Shih-Che, Moskeland, Annalyse, Palmeiro-Silva, Yasna, Scamman, Daniel, Smallcombe, James W, Abdullah, Sabah, Ades, Melanie, Al-Maruf, Abdullah, Ameli, Nadia, Angelova, Denitsa, Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja, Ballester, Joan, Basagaña, Xavier, Bechara, Hannah, Beggs, Paul J, Cai, Wenjia, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid, Charnley, Gina E C, Courtenay, Orin, Cross, Troy J, Dalin, Carole ORCID: 0000-0002-2123-9622, Dasandi, Niheer, Dasgupta, Shouro, Davies, Michael, Eckelman, Matthew, Freyberg, Chris, Corral, Paulina Garcia, Gasparyan, Olga, Giguere, Joseph, Gordon-Strachan, Georgiana, Gumy, Sophie, Gunther, Samuel H, Hamilton, Ian, Hang, Yun, Hänninen, Risto, Hartinger, Stella, He, Kehan, Heidecke, Julian, Hess, Jeremy J, Jankin, Slava, Jay, Ollie, Pantera, Dafni Kalatzi, Kelman, Ilan, Kennard, Harry, Kiesewetter, Gregor, Kinney, Patrick, Kniveton, Dominic, Koubi, Vally, Kouznetsov, Rostislav, Lampard, Pete, Lee, Jason K W, Lemke, Bruno, Li, Bo, Linke, Andrew, Liu, Yang, Liu, Zhao, Lowe, Rachel, Ma, Siqi, Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Maia, Carla, Markandya, Anil, Martin, Greta, Martinez-Urtaza, Jaime, Maslin, Mark, McAllister, Lucy, McMichael, Celia, Mi, Zhifu, Milner, James, Minor, Kelton, Minx, Jan, Mohajeri, Nahid, Momen, Natalie C, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Morrisey, Karyn, Munzert, Simon, Murray, Kris A, Obradovich, Nick, Orgen, Papa, Otto, Matthias, Owfi, Fereidoon, Pearman, Olivia L, Pega, Frank, Pershing, Andrew J, Pinho-Gomes, Ana-Catarina, Ponmattam, Jamie, Rabbaniha, Mahnaz, Repke, Tim, Roa, Jorge, Robinson, Elizabeth ORCID: 0000-0002-4950-0183, Rocklöv, Joacim, Rojas-Rueda, David, Ruiz-Cabrejos, Jorge, Rusticucci, Matilde, Salas, Renee N, Plana, Adrià San José, Semenza, Jan C, Sherman, Jodi D, Shumake-Guillemot, Joy, Singh, Pratik, Sjödin, Henrik, Sofiev, Mikhail, Sorensen, Cecilia, Springmann, Marco, Stowell, Jennifer D, Tabatabaei, Meisam, Tartarini, Federico, Taylor, Jonathon, Tonne, Cathryn, Treskova, Marina, Trinanes, Joaquin A, Uppstu, Andreas, Valdes-Ortega, Nicolas, Wagner, Fabian, Watts, Nick, Whitcombe, Hannah, Wood, Richard, Yang, Pu, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Shaohui, Zhang, Chi, Zhang, Shihui, Zhu, Qiao, Gong, Peng, Montgomery, Hugh, Costello, Anthony and Smith, Matthew R. (2025) The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline. The Lancet, 406 (10521). 2804 - 2857. ISSN 0140-6736

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Abstract

Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C above those of pre-industrial times for the first time in 2024. Despite ever more urgent calls to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions rose to record levels that same year. Climate change is increasingly destabilising the planetary systems and environmental conditions on which human life depends.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 Elsevier Ltd.
Divisions:	Geography and Environment Grantham Research Institute
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2025 11:51
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2026 17:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130009

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