"Climate Extremes and Global Health"


July 31, 2018.  

"The last few years have brought a string of <link https: www.foreignaffairs.com articles warming-world>terrible news[1] about the global climate. Politically, the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change is stalling. The United States has announced that it will <link https: www.foreignaffairs.com ask-the-experts trumps-paris-withdrawal-major-climate-setback>abandon the pact[2], and no other country has stepped up to fill the vacuum. Emissions rose 1.4 percent last year and no major industrialized country is on track to meet the emission control pledges it made in Paris, which means that the world is way off track to meeting the target of <link https: www.foreignaffairs.com articles world dont-abandon-paris-temperature-target>limiting warming[3] to two degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures. Scientifically, the news is even grimmer. New research in climate science indicates that extreme events, such as heat waves, the collapse of major ice sheets, and mass extinctions, are becoming dramatically more probable. And the evidence is mounting that climate change will have an extreme impact on human health into the near future. " [...]

Article by ZEF Director Joachim von Braun, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Partha Dasgupta and David G. Victor

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