World ill-prepared to stop climate crisis reversing progress on health, says study

UN meteorological body finds health experts have access to heat warning services in only half of affected countries

The climate crisis threatens to roll back decades of progress towards better health and governments are ill-prepared to stop it, the World Meteorological Organization has said.

Three-quarters of national weather agencies send climate data to their country’s health officials but less than one in four of health ministries use the information to protect people from risks like extreme heat, the report found.