Climate Change and Health

Climate change is the single greatest threat to human health, and medical professionals around the world are already taking action to mitigate the health effects brought on by this developing crisis. In order to avoid catastrophic health effects and the millions of fatalities that would come from climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) thinks that the increase in global temperature must be kept below 1.5°C. Some global temperature increases and other climate effects are already unavoidable due to historical emissions. Every additional tenth of a degree of global warming will have a significant negative impact on people's lives and health. It is thought that even a rise of 1.5°C is unsafe.