Articles and publications:
Xu J, Wang Q, Anikeeva O, Zhu P, Bi P, Huang C. Effects of extreme heat on physiology, morbidity, and mortality under climate change: mechanisms and clinical implications. BMJ. 2025 Oct 29;391. Click here
Royal College of Physicians. A breath of fresh air: responding to the health challenges of modern air pollution. June 2026. This report highlights new evidence showing how air pollution affects almost every organ in the body and the diseases that affect them and causes an estimated 30,000 deaths/year in the UK, disproportionately affecting the vulnerable and those from deprived backgrounds. The economic cost is £27 billion/year in the UK, and up to £50bn if wider impacts such as dementia are included. Click here
Royal College of Paediatrics, Air pollution in the UK – position statement. 19 Sept 2024. Exposure to air pollution, primarily from fossil fuels, is the second leading risk factor for death in children under 5, both globally and in the UK and contributes to a range of adverse health outcomes and premature mortality, particularly for those living in deprived neighbourhoods. This updated position statement reviews the latest evidence and highlights the urgent need for comprehensive policy measures to safeguard children’s future. Click here
Your Health As The Climate Changes: Death and Disease on a Warming Planet “an impressive and urgent new book by Dr Scott Fraser, a doctor in the NHS, and an editor of various medical journals. Though well-written and easily accessible to a wide audience”, the book “acknowledges the ‘cognitive dissonance’ that makes the climate crisis seem distant geographically as
well as temporally.” Read Sam Chadwick’s review in full here
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change Published annually the Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change. All content is either Open Access or free to read with registration. Click here
The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms includes research from across the world on the health impacts of extreme weather including heat, floods, fire as well as their impact on food insecurity, inequalities and poverty. Click here
A healthy future – tackling climate change mitigation and human health together is a 2021 report by The Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society that summarises the evidence of how climate change mitigation could benefit health. Click here
Climate change, women’s health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership is an article that ‘puts climate change in the context of women’s reproductive health as a public health issue, a social justice issue, a human rights issue, an economic issue, a political issue, and a gender issue’. Click here
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2022 Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. This report is an assessment of the impacts of climate change. Click here
Fossil Fuels, the Fossil Fuel industry and Public Health: the case for ending extraction and exploration to protect public health. The Faculty of Health position statement descirbes the harms and inequitable health impacts associated with fossil fuels Click here