Limiting warming to 1.8 degree C could prevent loss of 1.89 billion years of healthy life: Analysis

The commission put forth a framework to inform action before harm becomes embedded — create and fund threat-ready health systems, increase investment in innovation and reassess threats regularly and independently) Limiting global warming to around 1.8 degrees Celsius, instead of allowing it to reach 4.4 degrees Celsius, could prevent the loss of 1.89 billion years of healthy life to causes such as extreme heat and air pollution, according to a new LancetCommission.