Climate change is driving record threats to human health, experts warn

Climate change is propelling a range of threats to health, including droughts that have hit the yields of important food crops. © AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP/File

Paris (AFP) – Climate change is causing unprecedented damage to human health worldwide, with the authors of a major report on Wednesday warning that "wasted time has been paid in lives".

The report was released as heatwaves, fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods have lashed the world during what is expected to surpass 2023 to become the hottest year on record.