Covid Recovery Poses Dire Climate, Health Risks: Report
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The Lancet Countdown found that up to 19% of Earth's land mass was affected by extreme drought in 2020 and warned that climate change posed a major threat to food security, which already affects more than two billion people.
Countries' fossil fuel-powered Covid-19 recoveries will have long-lasting consequences on human health and risk worsening the food and water insecurity, heatwaves and infectious diseases already threatening billions globally, a major assessment warned Thursday.
The Lancet Countdown is the largest annual study of the impacts of climate change on human health.
It found that up to 19 percent of Earth's land mass was affected by extreme drought in 2020 and warned that climate change posed a major threat to food security, which already affects more than two billion people.
Compared with the historic average, the global population of over-65s lived through 3.1 billion additional extreme heat days last year, it found.
