710,000 people worldwide die from heat, record high in 2023 - International study

[New York Current Affairs] On the 28th, an international research team published a report in the British medical journal Lancet stating that the number of heat-related deaths will reach a record 710,000 worldwide in 2023. Analysis shows that more than 70% of these could have been avoided without climate change caused by human activities. He emphasized the need to strengthen global warming countermeasures to protect health and human lives.

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Professor Marina Romanello of University College London (UCL), who led the study, emphasized that ``climate change is a global health emergency.'' Ahead of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31), which will be held in Turkey from November 9, he called on the international community to come together to tackle the issue.

According to the report, in the 10 years (2006 to 2015) before the Paris Agreement, an international framework to combat global warming, came into effect in 2016, the average number of deaths due to heat was 400,000 a year. Even after the introduction of the Paris Agreement, temperatures continued to rise, increasing the impact and risks on health.