The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline

Marina Romanello; Maria Walawender; Shih-Che Hsu; Annalyse Moskeland; Yasna Palmeiro-Silva; Daniel Scamman; James W Smallcombe; Sabah Abdullah; Melanie Ades; Abdullah Al-Maruf; Nadia Ameli; Denitsa Angelova; Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson; Joan Ballester; Xavier Basagaña; Hannah Bechara; Paul J Beggs; Wenjia Cai; Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum; Gina E C Charnley; Orin Courtenay; Troy J Cross; Carole Dalin; Niheer Dasandi; Shouro Dasgupta; Michael Davies; Matthew Eckelman; Chris Freyberg; Paulina Garcia Corral; Olga Gasparyan; Joseph Giguere; Georgiana Gordon-Strachan; Sophie Gumy; Samuel H Gunther; Ian Hamilton; Yun Hang; Risto Hänninen; Stella Hartinger; Kehan He; Julian Heidecke; Jeremy J Hess; Slava Jankin; Ollie Jay; Dafni Kalatzi Pantera; Ilan Kelman; Harry Kennard; Gregor Kiesewetter; Patrick Kinney; Dominic Kniveton; Carla Maia

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01919-1

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline

Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu, Annalyse Moskeland, Yasna Palmeiro-Silva, Daniel Scamman, James W Smallcombe, Sabah Abdullah, Melanie Ades, Abdullah Al-Maruf, Nadia Ameli, Denitsa Angelova, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Joan Ballester, Xavier Basagaña, Hannah Bechara, Paul J Beggs, Wenjia Cai, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Gina E C CharnleyOrin Courtenay, Troy J Cross, Carole Dalin, Niheer Dasandi, Shouro Dasgupta, Michael Davies, Matthew Eckelman, Chris Freyberg, Paulina Garcia Corral, Olga Gasparyan, Joseph Giguere, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Sophie Gumy, Samuel H Gunther, Ian Hamilton, Yun Hang, Risto Hänninen, Stella Hartinger, Kehan He, Julian Heidecke, Jeremy J Hess, Slava Jankin, Ollie Jay, Dafni Kalatzi Pantera, Ilan Kelman, Harry Kennard, Gregor Kiesewetter, Patrick Kinney, Dominic Kniveton, Carla Maia

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Original language	English
Journal	Lancet (London, England)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01919-1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 29 Oct 2025

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Romanello, M., Walawender, M., Hsu, S.-C., Moskeland, A., Palmeiro-Silva, Y., Scamman, D., Smallcombe, J. W., Abdullah, S., Ades, M., Al-Maruf, A., Ameli, N., Angelova, D., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Ballester, J., Basagaña, X., Bechara, H., Beggs, P. J., Cai, W., Campbell-Lendrum, D., ... Maia, C. (2025). The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline. Lancet (London, England). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01919-1

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