UN Study: Climate Change Is Deadlier Than Cancer in Some Parts of World

A new UN study has revealed that the impact of climate change will be more deadly than cancer in some parts of the world over the next years to come.

New data released by the United Nations Development Program and the Climate Impact Laboratory showed that if carbon emissions remained high, the impact of climate change on health would be twice as deadly than cancer in some countries of the world, according to a statement published by the United Nations on its website.

The study indicated that in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh - for example - in the event that high carbon emissions continue, by the year 2100 the death rate due to climate change could rise to nearly double the current annual death toll from all types of cancer, and 10 times the annual deaths caused by it.

The UN study explained that due to human actions, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches dangerous levels, leading to global warming, which puts the cardiovascular and respiratory systems under stress worldwide, but results will vary between places according to the societies that have resources for adaptation and societies that do not have such these resources.