Khaberni - In the harshest warning yet, a major international report has revealed that the global failure to address the climate crisis is no longer a future threat, but has become a deadly reality that is devastating humans at a rate "one person every minute" around the world due to rising temperatures alone.
The report, known as the "2025 Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health", has sounded the alarm, indicating that the ongoing reliance on fossil fuels not only causes global warming but also directly fuels catastrophic health crises, including air pollution, devastating wildfires, and the rapid spread of deadly diseases such as dengue fever, collectively leading to the deaths of millions of people annually.
"Lancet Countdown": The most comprehensive source
These shocking figures did not come out of nowhere. This report, which is the most comprehensive of its kind to date, was prepared under the leadership of University College London (UCL) in close cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO).
It was developed by 128 experts from more than 70 prestigious academic institutions and specialized UN bodies.
The report relies on the analysis of real-world data to link climate changes to direct health outcomes and presents a grim picture of the human cost that the planet is paying.
Anatomy of the "disaster" of heat-related deaths
The "Lancet Countdown" reveals a staggering rise in deaths directly attributed to heat. The report found that the number of heat-related deaths increased by 23% since the 1990s.
To illustrate the scale of the disaster in numbers, the average annual deaths resulting from heat amounted to 546,000 deaths, during the period between 2012 and 2021.
