Climate change gives disease-carrying insects wider range, warns Lancet report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The report has been released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference , due to take place in Belem, Brazil, in November, where delegates are expected to take stock of progress towards the goals set at the 2015 Paris Agreement.
53% : The report says rapidly phasing out fossil fuels is the most powerful means to slow climate change, but shifting to more climate-friendly diets and agricultural systems could also cut pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, and save millions of lives annually.MICHAEL FRIDJHON:
47% : These include air pollution from wildfire smoke, which was linked to a record 154,000 deaths worldwide, and air pollution from burning fossil fuels, which resulted in 2.5-million deaths a year -- 219,000 of them in SA.
45% : Fewer than 100 labels dominate, so how do all the others survive? Air Pollution Mortality Fossil Fuel Reliance South Africa
42% : Delays in transitioning away from fossil fuels -- which saw CO₂ emissions from burning fuel fall by just 6% in 2016-22 in SA -- are also costing lives due to air pollution, warn the report's authors.
41% : The report estimates that the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels and failure to curb global warming has sent heat-related deaths surging 23% since the 1990s.
40% : The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction," she said.

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