France, April 22 -- The window for meaningful action to tackle the intensifying impact of global heating on human health is "narrowing", according to the latest Lancet Countdown Europe report, published on Wednesday.

Compiled by 65 researchers from 46 academic and United Nations institutions, the annual report tracks how climate change affects human health.

It found that 820 of the 823 regions monitored recorded a rise in heat-attributable deaths between 2015 and 2024, compared with the period 1991 to 2000, with an average increase of 52 deaths per million inhabitants per year.

Over the same period, daily extreme heat warnings rose by 318 percent.

"Across Europe, the health impacts of climate change are intensifying faster t...