The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

M Romanello, M Walawender, SC Hsu, A Moskeland… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world
is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to …

Climate change from the Asia‐Pacific perspective: what an allergist needs to know and do

A Zain, I Yeo, L Wong, LP Shek - Pediatric Allergy and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Allergic diseases such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergies are a burgeoning
health challenge in the Asia‐Pacific region. Compounding this, the region has become …

Regional variation in the role of humidity on city-level heat-related mortality

Q Guo, MN Mistry, X Zhou, G Zhao, K Kino, B Wen… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rising humid heat is regarded as a severe threat to human survivability, but the proper
integration of humid heat into heat-health alerts is still being explored. Using state-of-the-art …

Health impacts of climate resilient city development: Evidence from China

K Fu, Y Liu, X Lu, B Chen, Y Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines the health impacts of Climate Resilient City (CRC) policies using a
difference-in-differences methodology. Our findings demonstrate that CRC policies …

Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis

C He, S Breitner-Busch, V Huber, K Chen, S Zhang… - bmj, 2024 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the associations between characteristics of daily rainfall (intensity,
duration, and frequency) and all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality. Design …

Analysing the variability of non-stationary extreme rainfall events amidst climate change in East Malaysia

JL Ng, YF Huang, SLS Yong, JC Lee… - AQUA—Water …, 2024 - iwaponline.com
Climate change is intensifying the occurrence of extreme rainfall events, drawing attention to
the importance of understanding the return period concept within the realm of extreme …

New perspectives on urban stormwater management in China, with a focus on extreme rainfall events

P Li, L Zhuang, K Lin, D She, Q Chen, Q Wang, J **a - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Climate change, especially the rise in extreme rainfall events, combined with urbanization,
poses significant challenges to traditional hydrological methodologies. These developments …

Can climate literacy decrease the gap between pro-environmental intention and behaviour?

C Hu, W Pan, L Wen, W Pan - Journal of Environmental Management, 2025 - Elsevier
Given the increasing intensity of climate change, members of the public perceive its
occurrence and participate in pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) that are expected to …

Health Impacts of Climate-Resilient Urban Development: Evidence from China

K Fu, Y Liu, X Lu, B Chen, Y Chen - Available at SSRN 4903780 - papers.ssrn.com
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events due to global warming has significantly
impacted the health of people, necessitating adaptive policy measures to mitigate these …

The Bright Side of Climate Risk: The Case of R&D Investment

H Xu, X Wang - Available at SSRN 5096813 - papers.ssrn.com
We explore firms' investment decisions in research and development (R&D) under the
context of climate uncertainty. Employing global firm quarterly data and firm-level climate risk …