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Countries need better access to resources to help predict health risks, report says.

Climate change could reverse decades of health progress, particularly for the most vulnerable communities, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned.1 In its annual State of Climate Services report, WMO said that by 2030, the number of medium or large scale disasters could reach 560 a year—or 1.5 a day. In summer 2022, extreme heat was estimated to have caused over 60 000 excess deaths in 35 European countries. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has also warned that future health risks from injury, disease, and death are likely to increase as temperature extremes, c...

According to a report by UN agency World Meteorological Organizationan, an estimated 489,000 people died due to heat per year from 2000 to 2019, with 45 per cent of these deaths in Asia. 

Climate change poses a health threat through increasing weather disasters and extreme heat, the UN said Thursday, calling for better warning systems that could be weaved into public health policy.- Extreme heat - The WMO said abnormally high heat causes the greatest mortality of all extreme weather but health decision makers in only half of the countries affected can access warning services.

As the world warms at a faster rate than at any point in recorded history, human health is on the frontline. Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress towards better health and well-being, particularly in the most vulnerable communities. Scientific know-how and resources can help redress the balance, but are not sufficiently accessible or