The climate emergency is a fundamental threat to human health, affecting every aspect of the environment as well as human and natural systems, including the functioning of health care infrastructure and disease transmission – and it is getting worse. According to  messages published in the medical journal The Lancet in November 2023, more people will get sick and die as a result of extreme heat, drought and other climate problems. One of the report's starkest projections was that if the global average temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures, an increasingly likely future, the number of heat-related deaths will increase by 370 % each year by mid-year. this century.