Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378289%3A_____%2F25%3A00604750" target="_blank" >RIV/68378289:_____/25:00604750 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/25:105984
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82788-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82788-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82788-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-024-82788-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality
Original language description
The impacts of climate change on human health are often underestimated or perceived to be in a distant future. Here, we present the projected impacts of climate change in the context of COVID-19, a recent human health catastrophe. We compared projected heat mortality with COVID-19 deaths in 38 cities worldwide and found that in half of these cities, heat-related deaths could exceed annual COVID-19 deaths in less than ten years (at + 3.0 degrees C increase in global warming relative to preindustrial). In seven of these cities, heat mortality could exceed COVID-19 deaths in less than five years. Our results underscore the crucial need for climate action and for the integration of climate change into public health discourse and policy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
2045-2322
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1002
UT code for WoS article
001391785200046
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85214224909