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Deadly heat, dirty air and the cost to European lives

Published 18.12.2025

How much will deadly heat cost European societies in the coming decades – not only in lives lost but in economic welfare terms? A recent paper from the EXHAUSTION project “What are the costs of heat spell mortality in Europe’s urban areas up to 2050?” addresses that question.

Emission scenarios | Heat waves | Air pollution

Protecting health and equity in a warming Europe

Published 29.8.2025

Heat is an evident cause of mortality among people with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with higher risks when combined with exposure to air pollution. Kristin Aunan, research director and climate scientist at CICERO, and her team have extensively studied these effects and evaluated equitable interventions to reduce their impacts.

Adaptation | Air pollution | Climate risk | Heat waves | Health

Air pollution cuts in East Asia likely accelerated global warming

Published 14.7.2025

Global warming has accelerated since 2010. A new CICERO-led study shows that unmasking of greenhouse-gas-driven warming due to a substantial cleanup in air pollution over East Asia can explain it.

Air pollution | Temperature changes

Will develop advanced early warning and decision-support systems for heat and air pollution in Delhi and Kolkata

Published 18.3.2025

Today, there are separate early warning systems for extreme heat and air pollution in India. A new project will assess exposure and health impacts from concurrent extreme heat and air pollution in Delhi and Kolkata and work to make a joint early warning system for both these challenges.

Clean Cooking and Climate Change Impacts

Published 1.3.2024

Household Air Pollution (HAP) ranks as the ninth leading risk factor for premature mortality globally. Through the CICERO-led project 4CImpacts we have worked on clean cooking and climate change impacts in Tanzania.

Air pollution | Health | Energy consumption

The turbulent future brings a breath of fresh air

Published 28.6.2023

In the future, an increase in turbulence will alleviate the intensity of near-surface air pollution, according to a new paper by CICERO researchers published in Nature Communications. The findings bring a positive message showing the added benefits of mitigation.

Atmospheric particles | Air pollution | Health

New report from Lancet Countdown highlights increasing impacts of climate change on people’s health and wellbeing

Published 1.11.2022

Climate change is undermining every dimension of global health monitored, states the most recent Lancet Countdown report that is tracking the connection between health and climate change.

Human health and social development under threat by extreme heat and air pollution

Published 6.9.2022

Extreme heat and high levels of air pollution create a major and immediate threat to human health. How should climate research respond?

Air pollution | Extreme weather | Heat waves

How much carbon dioxide can we emit?

Published 16.3.2017

COMMENTARY: Despite the complexity of the climate system, there is a rather simple relationship between the long-term temperature increase and the total amount of carbon dioxide emitted. Why, then, is there no clear answer to how much we can emit?

Carbon budget | Emission scenarios | Atmospheric particles | Air pollution | Methane

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Projects

EMPHASIS - Exploring Mitigation Pathways for Holistic Sustainable development in Indian States

EMPHASIS develops novel knowledge on climate mitigation and energy transition pathways at Indian state and national levels, and their synergies and trade-offs with sustainable development in terms of energy security, economic growth, air quality, health and social justice.

Combined impact of heat and air pollution exposure on human health in India: Evidence and solutions (COPE)

The COPE project will develop advanced Early Warning and Decision-support Systems for heat and air pollution in the two major Indian urban conglomerates - Delhi and Kolkata.

Planet4Health - Translating Science into Policy: A Multisectoral Approach to Adaptation and Mitigation of Adverse Effects of Vector-Borne Diseases, Environmental Pollution and Climate Change on Planetary Health

The PLANET4HEALTH project aims to deepen the understanding on how environmental degradation impacts human, animal and ecosystem health. Through collaboration with experts across disciplines, the project aims to support policy making processes and raise citizens awareness on sustainable planetary health, climate & environmental policies and adaptation & mitigation strategies to natural hazards.

Health | Air pollution

ENBEL: Connecting health and climate change research

Climate change is according to the WHO the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. By bringing together leaders in climate change and health research the CICERO-coordinated Horizon 2020 project ENBEL will contribute with knowledge and policy advice on climate change and health links.

Climate impacts internationally | Air pollution | Heat waves | Health | Extreme weather

4CImpacts - Universal Energy Access: Clean cooking and climate change impacts

Lack of access to clean cooking technology is the single largest environmental risk factor for disease and disability in countries relying on traditional biomass fuels for household energy due to household air pollution.

Adaptation | Air pollution | Health

Quantifying health risks from heat and air pollution (HEATCOST)

HEATCOST will quantify health risks attributable to heat and air pollution (with a particular focus on air pollution from wildfires) in main world regions under selected climate scenarios and socioeconomic pathways.

EXHAUSTION

Increasing temperatures and heat waves due to climate change, combined with air pollution, constitute major health risks, and could cause an increase in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases across Europe. EXHAUSTION (Exposure to heat and air pollution in Europe – cardiopulmonary impacts and benefits of mitigation and adaptation) aims to quantify the changes in cardiopulmonary mortality and morbidity due to extreme heat and air pollution (including from wildfires) under selected climate scenarios. EXHAUSTION has its own project website at EXHAUSTION.EU

Health | Air pollution | Heat waves

SUSCAP: Developing resilience and tolerance of crop resource use efficiency to climate change and air pollution

The SUSCAP project is investigating how climate change and air pollution impact crop growth, development and yield in Europe with the aim of increasing the sustainability of agriculture and reduction in the threats to crop resources use efficiency.

Climate impacts internationally | Food and agriculture | Air pollution

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Events

21 oktober 2025

Pan-African Conference on Environment, Climate Change and Health: Science to Policy

Under the overarching theme, "Harnessing Science, Policy, and Partnerships for Environmental Sustainability and Climate-Health Resilience," the conference is designed to ignite transformative collaboration at the nexus of Environment, Climate change and Health.

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Research groups

Climate and health

The climate and health research group is an interdisciplinary group with strong competence within a range of areas of relevance to health impact assessment.

Climate System

The Climate System group conducts research to understand the physical changes and evolution of the global and regional climate system, the underlying driving human-induced and natural processes, and the subsequent consequences.

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