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They call for climate change to be considered a health emergency

The Lancet Countdown report calls for official recognition of climate change and the declaration of health emergencies.

the Lancet Countdown txosten of 2026 links climate change and health, reporting an increase in health risks and damage resulting from climate change in the decade following the signing of the Paris Agreement (2016-2025) compared to the decade before the Paris Agreement (2006-2015).

“Global warming cannot be below 1.5°C.”

The document, which brings together the work of 146 researchers from more than 30 countries, calls for health to guide climate policies and funding priorities. In fact, according to the report, 710,000 global deaths in 2023 were related to heat, 70% of which have been attributed to climate change.

On the other hand, global investment in clean energy reached a record of 2.1 trillion dollars in 2025, almost double that of fossil fuels. However, the 87 countries studied allocated a subsidy of 906 billion dollars to fossil fuels, ten times more than the price of carbon.

The UN has also released its Report on the 2026 Emissions Gap. It states that global warming cannot be kept below 1.5°C. Therefore, the objective in the coming years would be to overcome this barrier as little as possible and in the shortest possible time, and return to the 1.5°C limit by the end of the century.

This would require a reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions by 18 per cent by 2030, 45 per cent by 2035 and 69 per cent by 2040, compared to 2025.

In addition, renewable energy generation capacity should be three times higher than the current one, and electricity from coal should be reduced by 75% by 2035 compared to emissions in 2025 and disappear by 2040.

They conclude that climate policies can effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but that the challenge now is to expand them.