The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline
Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C above those of pre-industrial times for the first time in 2024. Despite ever more urgent calls to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions rose to record levels that same year. Climate change is increasingly destabilising the planetary systems and environmental conditions on which human life depends.
Authors
- Simon Munzert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4760-367X)
- Lemke Bruno
- joaquin Trinanes
- Diarmid Campbell‐Lendrum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2503-7059)
- Samuel H Gunther (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-0345)
- Cathryn C. Tonne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3919-8264)
- Fabian Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3429-2374)
- Pete Lampard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3963-8602)
- Jeremy Hess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0440-2459)
- Greta Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5895-9519)
- Julian Heidecke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5905-7365)
- Olga Gasparyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4628-7903)
- Jan C. Semenza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4625-874X)
- Jorge Roa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3972-9793)
- Andrew M. Linke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2031-4686)
- Nadia Ameli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6728-9190)
- Yun Hang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3240-2149)
- Denitsa Angelova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6483)
- Harry Kennard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-0768)
- Risto Hänninen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-1726)
- Jodi Sherman
- Rachel Lowe
- James W. Smallcombe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-1537)
- Celia McMichael (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4572-602X)
- Ollie Jay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6076-6337)
- Jodi D. Sherman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4157-9728)
- Melanie Ades (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2633-4485)
- Dominic Kniveton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-4277)
- Hugh Montgomery (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8797-5019)
- Andrew J. Pershing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4432-0850)
- Matilde Rusticucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2588-6234)
- Paul J. Beggs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-1783)
- Hannah Béchara
- Yasna Palmeiro-Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6664-1079)
- Jan C. Minx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2862-0178)
- Troy J. Cross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2902-7787)
- Matthew J. Eckelman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-3682)
- Annalyse Moskeland
- Orin Courtenay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0188-6929)
- Vally Koubi
- Joy Shumake Shumake-Guillemot
- Kris A. Murray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8382-0674)
- Federico Tartarini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8739-5062)
- Jennifer Stowell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-7149)
- Niheer Dasandi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8708-837X)
- Henrik Sjödin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1235-4781)
- Siqi Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-2911)
- Marco Springmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6028-5712)
- Fereidoon Owfi
- Shouro Dasgupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4080-8066)
- Martinez-Urtaza Jaime
- Lucy McAllister (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4876-8388)
- Sonja Rosina Ayeb-Karlsson
- Sabah Othman Abdullah
- Nick Obradovich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1127-2231)
- Georgiana Gordon‐Strachan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5712-9575)
- Rostislav D. Kouznetsov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-0037)
- David Rojas‐Rueda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5854-2484)
- Andreas Uppstu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4919-8023)
- Hannah Whitcombe
- Dafni Kalatzi Pantera
- Paulina Garcia Corral
- Renee N. Salas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7094-6972)
- Ilan Kelman
- Joseph Giguère
- Peng Gong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7720-3039)
- Nahid Mohajeri
- Kehan He
- Karyn Morrisey
- Nicolas Valdes-Ortega
- Papa Orgen
- Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos
- Jonathon Taylor
- Adrià San José Plana
- Maria Walawender
- Gina E C Charnley
- Matthew R. Smith
- Meisam Tabatabaei
- Cecilia Sorensen
- Anthony Costello
- Pu Yang
- Stella Hartinger
- Jamie Ponmattam
- James Milner
- Shihui Zhang
- Joacim Rocklöv
- Mikhail Sofiev
- Elizabeth Robinson
- Xavier Basagaña
- Slava Jankin
- Mahnaz Rabbaniha
- Tim Repke
- Richard Wood
- Joan Ballester
- Qiao Zhu
- Shih-Che Hsu
- Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes
- Natalie C Momen
- Mark Maslin
- Bo Li
- Carla Maia
- Marina Romanello
- Anil Markandya
- Carole Dalin
- Chi Zhang
- Jason K W Lee
- Matthias Otto
- Pratik Singh
- Zhifu Mi
- Ian Hamilton
- Wenjia Cai
- Kelton Minor
- Ying Zhang
- Marina Treskova
- Frank Pega
- Sophie Gumy
- Patrick Kinney
- Yang Liu
- Michael Davies
- Gregor Kiesewetter
- Nick Watts
- Abdullah Al-Maruf
- Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
- Zhao Liu
- Shaohui Zhang
- Daniel Scamman
Publication Details
- Journal
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Published
- 2025-12-13
- Primary Topic
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00