Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to human health around the world, with record temperatures, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious diseases.

At the UN climate talks COP29, in what is expected to be the hottest year on record, and with climate sceptic Donald Trump re-elected as US president.

At the COP29 negotiations in Azerbaijan, as rising fossil fuel emissions warm the planet and many countries experience devastating floods, droughts, heat waves and storms, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

The World Health Organization has warned that ‘climate change is making us sick and urgent action is a matter of life and death’.