Fiji, Nov. 10 -- The climate crisis has become a global health emergency of pandemic proportions, with extreme heat, pollution and climate disasters threatening lives and overwhelming health systems, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell says.

Speaking at a press conference hosted by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) at COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye, Stiell said the latest climate data showed the world was getting dangerously hot, with hundreds of millions of people exposed to extreme heat across southern Asia.

He said heatwaves during the northern hemisphere summer had broken temperature records and were estimated to have killed 50,000 people across Europe.

"For too many people, climate change is deadly," Stiell sai...