France, Oct. 28 -- Some 3 million deaths between 2016 and 2023 can be attributed to global warming, according to the latest Lancet Countdown report, a global study of climate-related health risks.

Heat deaths in particular are accelerating. In 2023 alone, heat was linked to 710,000 deaths, the study found, with more than 70 percent attributable to human-caused climate change.

"We expect 2025 to be a lot more deadly," Marina Romanello, the lead author of the report, told RFI. Data is not yet available for the past three years, which have seen average temperatures break records yet again.

It is the first time the annual assessment, published every year since the Paris Agreement came into effect in 2016, has quantified heat deaths due dir...