{"id":246047,"date":"2026-10-28T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/climate-health-harms-outpace-action-prompting-calls-for-global-health-emergency"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:15:21","slug":"climate-health-harms-outpace-action-prompting-calls-for-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/climate-health-harms-outpace-action-prompting-calls-for-global-health-emergency","title":{"rendered":"Climate health harms outpace action, prompting calls for global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2026 Report of <i>The Lancet<\/i> Countdown on Health and Climate Change finds that many of the health risks and harms of climate change grew faster in the decade since the Paris Agreement was introduced (2016\u20132025) than in the decade before it (2006\u20132015).<\/p>\n<p>Clean energy investment, health system leadership, more health-protecting legislation and growing scientific evidence helped deliver real health gains, but not enough to offset the rapidly growing harm from fossil fuel\u2013driven climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s authors call for climate change to be formally recognized and addressed as a global health emergency, and for health to shape both climate policies and funding priorities to prevent climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change finds that many of the health risks and harms of climate change grew faster in the decade since the Paris Agreement was introduced (2016\u20132025) than in the decade before it (2006\u20132015). Clean energy investment, health system leadership, more health-protecting legislation and growing scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}