Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Africa: An International Collaboration for Locally Led Research and Action.

Abstract

Climate change inflicts substantial economic damage on developing African nations, threatening progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. There are synergies between actions needed to tackle climate change and other ongoing development priorities for Africa, including infectious disease control, facilitating clean energy access, and reducing poverty. This paper presents the establishment of an Africa-focused Lancet Countdown platform to track health and climate change data through locally led research.