Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks

KL Ebi, A Capon, P Berry, C Broderick, R de Dear… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Hot ambient conditions and associated heat stress can increase mortality and morbidity, as
well as increase adverse pregnancy outcomes and negatively affect mental health. High …

Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

S Whitmee, R Green, K Belesova, S Hassan, S Cuevas… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

[PDF][PDF] Europe: from Chapters and Cross-Chapter Papers

B Bednar-Friedl, GR Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2022 - edepot.wur.nl
Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh-Guldberg, D Jacob, M Bindi… - Global warming of …, 2018 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Abstract An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of …

Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming

CM Powis, D Byrne, Z Zobel, KN Gassert, AC Lute… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
As our planet warms, a critical research question is when and where temperatures will
exceed the limits of what the human body can tolerate. Past modeling efforts have …

Increasing heat‐stress inequality in a warming climate

MR Alizadeh, JT Abatzoglou, JF Adamowski… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation is key to minimizing heatwaves' societal burden; however, our understanding of
adaptation capacity across the socioeconomic spectrum is incomplete. We demonstrate that …

Observations and projections of heat waves in South America

S Feron, RR Cordero, A Damiani, PJ Llanillo… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Although Heat Waves (HWs) are expected to increase due to global warming, they
are a regional phenomenon that demands for local analyses. In this paper, we assess four …

China's carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

X Lu, D Tong, K He - Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023 - Springer
China is the largest develo** economy and carbon dioxide emitter in the world, the carbon
neutrality goal of which will have a profound influence on the mitigation pathway of global …

Impacts on and damage to European forests from the 2018–2022 heat and drought events

F Knutzen, P Averbeck, C Barrasso… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2025 - nhess.copernicus.org
Drought and heat events in Europe are becoming increasingly frequent due to human-
induced climate change, impacting both human well-being and ecosystem functioning. The …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature-related excess mortality in German cities at 2° C and higher degrees of global warming

V Huber, L Krummenauer, C Peña-Ortiz, S Lange… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Investigating future changes in temperature-related mortality as a function of
global mean temperature (GMT) rise allows for the evaluation of policy-relevant climate …