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[Editorial] Climate change and health: 10 years on, what next?

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  • Ten years after the Paris Agreement, its key temperature goal has been missed, according to the Guardian.
  • Experts quoted by the Guardian say the agreement still serves as a moral compass for climate progress.
  • A Lancet editorial marks the ten-year mark by asking what comes next for climate change and health.

Why it matters

The assessment shows how a major climate treaty is judged a decade on, which shapes expectations for future negotiations and health-related climate research.

The Paris Agreement came into force in 2016, a watershed in collective international action on climate change. That year also saw the creation of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, established to track the health effects of climate change and climate action. The…

Timeline

  1. Paris Agreement came into force

  2. Lancet Countdown on health and climate change was established

  3. thelancet.com

    [Editorial] Climate change and health: 10 years on, what next?

  4. Climate crisis | The Guardian

    What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?

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