NOTES TO EDITORS
This study was funded by Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It was conducted by researchers from University College London, UK, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, Columbia University, USA, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Oxford, UK.
[1] The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international research collaboration providing a global overview of the relationship between public health and climate change. A collaboration of over 120 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe, it brings together climate scientists, engineers, energy specialists, economists, political scientists, public health professionals and doctors. Each year their annual report is published in The Lancet journal ahead of the UN climate change negotiations.
[2] The article is being published in a special issue of The Lancet Planetary Health journal alongside two other papers looking at the inclusion of health in the NDCs and the calculation of the carbon footprint of NHS England, as an exemplar for other health systems. The special issue will also include commentary pieces from Margaret Chan, former Director-General of WHO, Dagur Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavik, Collin Tukuitonga, Associate Dean Pacific of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, and Paula Vivili, Director of the Public Health Division at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and Andrea MacNeill, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia
[3] Only 40 countries (39 countries plus the EU27), have submitted revised NDCs, including three nations included in this study - the UK, Germany and Brazil [Latest update here: https://climateactiontracker.org/climate-target-update-tracker/ ]
[4] Quote direct from author and cannot be found in the text of the Article.
[5] For further details on the different scenarios modelled, please see Panel: Scenarios used for climate and health modelling, p. 3.
[6] https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1817098.shtml , https://joebiden.com/climate-plan
[7] https://www.unenvironment.org/emissions-gap-report-2020