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3.1 O mundo está com febre

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  1. o 1% de pessoas mais ricas é responsável Gore, T., ‘Confronting carbon inequality: putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery’, Oxfam International, 21 de Setembro de 2020, https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality.

  2. 75% das novas doenças infecciosas têm origem na vida selvagem National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, ‘Zoonotic diseases’, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 de Julho de 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html.

    “Estamos a criar as condições para o desenvolvimento de epidemias” ‘Trócaire, ‘5 lessons Dr. Mike Ryan says we need to learn from Covid-19’, 18 de Fevereiro de 2021, https://www.trocaire.org/news/5-lessons-dr-mike-ryan-says-we-need-to-learn-from-covid-19/.

    37% das mortes relacionadas com o calor são causadas pelas alterações climáticas Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M., et al., ‘The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change’, Nature Climate Change, 11 (6), 2021: 492–500, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01058-x.

    cerca de 10 milhões de pessoas morrem todos os anos em consequência da poluição atmosférica Shindell, D., et al., ‘Temporal and spatial distribution of health, labor, and crop benefits of climate change mitigation in the United States’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (46), 2021: Article e2104061118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104061118; Shindell, D., et al., ‘Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions’, Nature Climate Change, 8 (4), 2018: 291–5, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0108-y.

    a malária e a dengue podem pôr milhares de milhões em risco Colón-González, F. J., et al., ‘Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study’, Lancet Planetary Health, 5 (7), 2021: e404–e414, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00132-7; Caminade, C., et al., ‘Impact of climate change on global malaria distribution’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (9), 2014: 3286–91, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302089111; Liu-Helmersson, J., et al., ‘Climate change may enable Aedes aegypti infestation in major European cities by 2100’, Environmental Research, 172, 2019: 693–9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.02.026.