Temperature-related mortality impacts under and beyond Paris Agreement climate change scenarios.

ABSTRACT: The Paris Agreement binds all nations to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change, with the commitment to Bhold warming well below 2 °C in global mean temperature (GMT), relative to pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C". The 1.5 °C limit constitutes an ambitious goal for which greater evidence on its benefits for health would help guide policy and potentially increase the motivation for action. Here we contribute to this gap with an assessment on the potential health benefits, in terms of reductions in temperature-related mortality, derived from the compliance to the agreed temperature targets, compared to more extreme warming scenarios. We performed a multi-region analysis in 451 locations in 23 countries with different climate zones, and eva

SUBMITTER: Vicedo-Cabrera AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6217994 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature