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PubMed: 42030967 DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(26)00025-3
The 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: narrowing window for decisive health action.
Lancet Public Health
Authors: Hedi K Kriit, José Chen-Xu, Jan C Semenza, Hannah Heiliger, Anil Markandya, Niheer Dasandi, Slava Jankin, Kim R van Daalen, Hicham Achebak, Anna Alari, Tilly Alcayna, Emily Ball, Joan Ballester, Hannah Bechara, Max W Callaghan, Monique van Cauwenberghe, Gina E C Charnley, Orin Courtenay, Marta Cirach, Paulina Garcia-Corral, Troy J Cross, Shouro Dasgupta, Zachary P Dickson, Matthew J Eckelman, Cornelius Erfort, Peter Fransson, Zia Farooq, Olga Gasparyan, Ian Hamilton, Marlies Hesselman, Risto Hänninen, Shih-Che Hsu, Tomáš Janoš, Harshavardhan Jatkar, Ollie Jay, Harry Kennard, Kajal Khanna, Gregor Kiesewetter, Rachel Lowe, Daniela Lührsen, Carla Maia, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Jan C Minx, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Julia Palamarchuk, Adria San José Plana, Tim Repke, Jorge A Roa-Contreras, Elizabeth J Z Robinson, Daniel Scamman … and 15 other authors
Affiliations
- Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Planetary Health Hub, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
- Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Berlin, Germany.
- Basque Centre for Climate Change, University of Basque, Leioa, Spain.
- Institute for Data and AI, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
- Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands; Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona Spain.
- Data Science Lab, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany.
- Groningen Centre for Health Law, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- The Zeeman Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
- Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany.
- Heat and Health Research Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Venice, Italy; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK; Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK; Data Science Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
- Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
- Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Planetary Health Hub, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- Department of Political Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
- The George Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Groningen Centre for Health Law, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK.
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
- University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
- Pollution Management Research Group, Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain.
- Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Associate Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain.
- Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK.
MeSH
Climate, Public Health