Global study counts almost 3 million climate change-related deaths

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 (2016–2025) than in the decade before it (2006–2015).

A new Lancet report finds the number of heat-related deaths has been growing since the 2015 Paris Agreement, despite real gains from the climate pact.