An international study coordinated by the University of Bern, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and with the participation of the researcher Aurelio Tobías, from the Institute for Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), shows for the first time the actual contribution of man-made climate change in increasing mortality risks due to heat: between 1991 and 2018, more than a third of all deaths in which heat played a role were attributable to global warming. The study, the largest of this kind, used data from 732 cities in 43 countries around the world and has just been published in the Nature Climate Change journal.
A.M. Vicedo-Cabrera, N. Scovronick , F. Sera, D. Royé , R. Schneider, A. Tobias, et al. 2021. The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change. Nat. Clim. Chang. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01058-x
IDAEA-CSIC Communication
Global warming is already responsible for one in three heat-related deaths