Low HDI countries experienced a 37% decrease in vulnerability to Aedes-borne disease between 19, partly due to improvements in access to healthcare. In 2021, air-conditioning provided cooling in a third of households but consumed about 1900 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity (approximately the total electricity consumption of India and Brazil combined).Ģ.3.1 Vulnerability to Mosquito-borne Disease In 2022, 94% of cities (848/898) reported they had completed or were undertaking a city-level climate change risk assessment, up from 713 in 2021.Ģ.2.2 Air Conditioning: Benefits and Harms Adaptation, Planning, and Resilience for HealthĢ.1.3 City-Level Climate Change Risk Assessments Icons Final_Green-03 Created with Sketch.The higher frequency of heatwave days and drought months in 2021 compared to 1981–2010, is associated with 127 million more people experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity.
The transmission potential for dengue by Aedes aegypti and albopictus increased by 42.7% and 39.5%, respectively. 60% of such temperatures were made more than twice as likely to occur by human-caused climate change. In 2018-2022, people experienced on average 86 days of health-threatening high temperatures annually.
