Climate change threatens 50 years of progress in global health, study says

But slashing fossil fuel use also presents greatest global opportunity to improve people's health in 21st century, says Lancet and UCL commission

Climate change threatens to undermine half a century of progress in global health, according to a major new report.

But the analysis also concludes that the benefits to health resulting from slashing fossil fuel use are so large that tackling global warming also presents the greatest global opportunity to improve people's health in the 21st century.