WHO Study - Deaths & Injuries Caused By Climate Breakdown To Double Within 25 Years - FT

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Deaths and injuries from climate change are set to more than double in the next 25 years, according to estimates to be published soon.

The World Health Organisation is finalising data forecasting that deaths linked to even a very narrow number of causes most closely connected to shifting weather patterns will reach more than 300,000 a year by 2030.

The number of disease-adjusted life years (Dalys) lost – a measure of injury and earlier death – linked to warming will rise in the period to more than 11m. The data, set to be submitted to an academic journal for publication over the summer, focus on the impact of temperature change on diarrhoea-related disease, malaria and malnutrition, which will be greatest in the developing world.

The estimates will add to the urgency of the debate over efforts to limit the human impact of global warming, highlighted in recent US discussions over the risks to international security caused by climate-related political disruptions and social unrest.

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