The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

Romanello M 1 , Napoli CD 2 , Green C 3 , Kennard H 4 , Lampard P 5 , Scamman D 6 Show all authors , Walawender M 7 , Ali Z 8 , Ameli N 6 , Ayeb-Karlsson S 9 , Beggs PJ 10 , Belesova K 11 , Berrang Ford L 12 , Bowen K 13 , Cai W 14 , Callaghan M 15 , Campbell-Lendrum D 16 , Chambers J 17 , Cross TJ 18 , van Daalen KR 19 , Dalin C 6 , Dasandi N 20 , Dasgupta S 21 , Davies M 9 , Dominguez-Salas P 22 , Dubrow R 23 , Ebi KL 3 , Eckelman M 24 , Ekins P 6 , Freyberg C 25 , Gasparyan O 26 , Gordon-Strachan G 27 , Graham H 5 , Gunther SH 28 , Hamilton I 29 , Hang Y 30 , Hänninen R 31 , Hartinger S 32 , He K 33 , Heidecke J 34 , Hess JJ 35 , Hsu SC 29 , Jamart L 7 , Jankin S 36 , Jay O 18 , Kelman I 7 , Kiesewetter G 37 , Kinney P 38 , Kniveton D 39 , Kouznetsov R 31 , Larosa F 40 , Lee JKW 28 , Lemke B 41 , Liu Y 30 , Liu Z 14 , Lott M 4 , Lotto Batista M 19 , Lowe R 42 , Odhiambo Sewe M 43 , Martinez-Urtaza J 44 , Maslin M 45 , McAllister L 46 , McMichael C 47 , Mi Z 33 , Milner J 48 , Minor K 49 , Minx JC 15 , Mohajeri N 33 , Momen NC 16 , Moradi-Lakeh M 50 , Morrissey K 51 , Munzert S 52 , Murray KA 8 , Neville T 16 , Nilsson M 53 , Obradovich N 54 , O'Hare MB 7 , Oliveira C 7 , Oreszczyn T 29 , Otto M 41 , Owfi F 55 , Pearman O 56 , Pega F 16 , Pershing A 57 , Rabbaniha M 55 , Rickman J 6 , Robinson EJZ 58 , Rocklöv J 34 , Salas RN 59 , Semenza JC 43 , Sherman JD 60 , Shumake-Guillemot J 61 , Silbert G 62 , Sofiev M 31 , Springmann M 63 , Stowell JD 38 , Tabatabaei M 64 , Taylor J 65 , Thompson R 66 , Tonne C 67 , Treskova M 34 , Trinanes JA 68 , Wagner F 37 , Warnecke L 37 , Whitcombe H 7 , Winning M 6 , Wyns A 69 , Yglesias-González M 70 , Zhang S 14 , Zhang Y 71 , Zhu Q 30 , Gong P 72 , Montgomery H 73 , Costello A 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: m.romanello@ucl.ac.uk
  • 2 School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
  • 3 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
  • 4 Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  • 5 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
  • 6 Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
  • 7 Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
  • 8 Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  • 9 Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
  • 10 School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 11 School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
  • 12 School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  • 13 School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 14 Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 15 Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
  • 16 Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 17 Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 18 Heat and Health Research Incubator, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 19 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
  • 20 International Development Department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 21 Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Lecce, Italy
  • 22 Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, London, UK
  • 23 School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
  • 24 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
  • 25 Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
  • 26 Department of Political Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • 27 Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
  • 28 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 29 Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
  • 30 Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • 31 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
  • 32 Carlos Vidal Layseca School of Public Health and Management, Cayetano Heredia Pervuvian University, Lima, Peru
  • 33 Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
  • 34 Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 35 Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
  • 36 Centre for AI in Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 37 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, Laxenburg, Austria
  • 38 Department of Environmental Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
  • 39 School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton and Hove, UK
  • 40 Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 41 School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
  • 42 Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
  • 43 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • 44 Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
  • 45 Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
  • 46 Environmental Studies Program, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA
  • 47 School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 48 Department of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  • 49 Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  • 50 Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 51 Department of Technology Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  • 52 Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
  • 53 Department for Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • 54 Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
  • 55 Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
  • 56 Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
  • 57 Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • 58 Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
  • 59 Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
  • 60 Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
  • 61 World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 62 Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 63 Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  • 64 Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
  • 65 Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
  • 66 UK Health Security Agency, London, UK
  • 67 Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
  • 68 Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
  • 69 Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 70 Centro Latinoamericano de Excelencia en Cambio Climatico y Salud, Cayetano Heredia Pervuvian University, Lima, Peru
  • 71 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 72 Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
  • 73 Department of Experimental and Translational Medicine and Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
Lancet, 2023 Dec 16;402(10419):2346-2394.
PMID: 37977174 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01859-7

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