Rising temperatures and your health

Population exposure to heat is increasing due to climate change, and this trend will continue. Globally, extreme temperature events are observed to be increasing in their frequency, duration, and magnitude. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of people exposed to heat waves increased by around 125 million. In 2015 alone, 175 million additional people were exposed to heat waves compared to average years.

In agriculture producers and farmworkers are at risk. Read the World Health Organisation’s pamphlet about rising temperature exposure and your health here: who-heat-health