Dear Colleagues,

As mentioned in the first Special Issue of “Health Impacts of Warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C,” and the special report of “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in October 2018, achieving the goal of 1.5 °C would significantly reduce the impacts of climate change. However, achieving such a stringent goal is very challenging and may be unrealistic. According to the special report from the IPCC, the global greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced to 40–50% of 2010 levels by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5 °C in 2100. However, with the current nationally stated mitigation ambition in place until 2030, we are more likely to experience global warming of 3 °C in 2100.

Along with the effort to limit global warming, it is very important to put effort into adapting to climate change and mitigating its future health impact. On the other hand, most previous studies on the impact of global warming rely on the assumption of constant health vulnerability, ignoring the potential influence of socio-economic development on future vulnerability. Such practice might cause a systematic overestimation of the impact of global warming.

In this second Special Issue, we invite papers assessing health impacts based on scenarios of global warming (1.5 °C and higher) and future vulnerability. The vulnerability scenarios can be constant, business as usual, or any other improvement scenarios associated with current and future adaptation and mitigation efforts. In addition, we invite papers exploring the drivers of the uneven distribution of health vulnerability seen in different regional, socio-economical, and demographical groups to fill the dearth of knowledge of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. To invite papers in this area, we have updated the title of the second Special Issue to be different from the first. You may contact the Guest Editor (Prof. Dr. Jae Young Lee) to confirm or discuss whether your work falls within the scope of this issue.

Prof. Dr. Jae Young Lee
Guest Editor

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• climate change
• climate variability
• environmental change
• global health
• risk assessment
• temperature
• adaptation and mitigation
• vulnerability

• Health Impacts of Warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (9 articles)