Inaction at COP28 will cost at least 5 million lives

COP28 seems doomed to avoid the rapid phasing out of fossil fuels. How many lives will be lost because of this?

In this video I talk with Prof Cathryn Tonne, one of the authors of a study published this week that analysed the excess mortality caused by burning fossil fuels. This allows for a simple, stark calculation of how many lives are lost each year due to our continued use of fossil fuels. And to tell you the truth, I think this is the video where I've finally had enough.

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Of course, COP28 cannot simply flip a switch and stop all burning of fossil fuels overnight. But the loss of lives in a single year provides a lower bound for the time-integrated loss of life as a result of one more year of delays. Of course the calculation is more complex than this, but this is a first approximation. And if it doesn't make you angry at the way COP28 is going, I'm not sure what to tell you.

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(7) https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles...

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