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Guwahati: There is only one week left in Katowice, in Poland for the 24th Conference of Parties (COP) on Climate Change, and a Lancet report states that The impact of climate change on human health is destructive worldwide. India is a country severely affected by heat stress, just like any other country in the world.
As reported in the Lancet Countdown 2018 on Health and Climate Change every human being living on this earth was exposed to an additional 1.4 day heat wave between 2000 and 2017. L exposure to the heat wave in 2017 was even more important with 157 million additional overheating events and, amazingly, that's 18 million more heat exposures compared to 2016.
In India, there were 40 million additional cases of exposure to heat waves in 2016 compared to 2012. India lost nearly 75,000 million hours of work in 2017. The country lost about 43,000 million hours in 2000 and a similarly large increase in lost hours of work in less than two decades is disturbing and quite serious.
If we consider the sector, then only in the agricultural sector, India lost about 60 000 mil million hours of work in 2017, or 40 billion hours in 2000. [19659002] The Lancet Report was written by 27 organizations, including doctors, academics and policy professionals from different countries. Dr. Poornima Prabhakaran, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of PHFI's Center for Environmental Health, said, "What we saw in the shared data is that the number, duration, and intensity of Heat waves have increased in India, especially during the last decade. The morbidity and mortality badociated with the heat wave are reaching peaks. Lancet shared with us summary datasets. "
See also: Climate Change and Disorders
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