The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action

KR van Daalen, C Tonne, JC Semenza… - The Lancet Public …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Record-breaking temperatures were recorded across the globe in 2023.
Without climate action, adverse climate-related health impacts are expected to worsen …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
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 …

Effects of climate change on combined labour productivity and supply: an empirical, multi-model study

S Dasgupta, N van Maanen, SN Gosling… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Although effects on labour is one of the most tangible and attributable climate
impact, our quantification of these effects is insufficient and based on weak methodologies …

The economic commitment of climate change

M Kotz, A Levermann, L Wenz - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Global projections of macroeconomic climate-change damages typically consider impacts
from average annual and national temperatures over long time horizons,,,,–. Here we use …

Heat stress and the labour force

S Dasgupta, EJZ Robinson, S Shayegh… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Heat stress affects the health of workers through physiological and behavioural responses,
in turn, affecting the labour force through impacts on labour supply, labour productivity and …

Climate risk and energy-saving technology innovation: Evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities

L **e, S Li - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
In the face of the challenges of energy and environmental issues posed by climate risk,
actively promoting energy-saving technology innovation is crucial in addressing climate risk …

The uneven impacts of climate change on China's labor productivity and economy

M Zhao, M Zhu, Y Chen, C Zhang, W Cai - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is considered to increase economic costs by worsening heat-related labor
productivity loss. While extensive global and national research has been conducted on this …

The macroeconomic impact of global and country-specific climate risk

JP Byrne, PA Vitenu-Sackey - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024 - Springer
This paper examines the impact of climate risk on macroeconomic activity for thirty countries
using over a century of panel time series data. The key innovation of our paper is to use a …

Raising the bar in spatial economic analysis: two laws of spatial economic modelling

JP Elhorst - Spatial Economic Analysis, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Based on a prospective and retrospective analysis of the 'Raising the bar'editorials
preceding regular issues of this journal from 2016–2023, this paper identifies two laws of …

The labour force in a changing climate: research and policy needs

S Dasgupta, EJZ Robinson - PLOS Climate, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Labour is one of the sectors most affected by heat stress. Labour supply (number working
hours) and labour productivity (output during these hours) are all affected by warming. A …