In short
Climate change is established to be unequivocal and has been unanimously identified as one of the biggest threats to health worldwide. In this project we evaluate, for the first time in Belgium, the excess mortality attributed to temperature under different future climate scenarios and population projections.
Project description
Currently almost half of the global population lives in urban areas, usually characterized by their higher environmental hazard burden (e.g., elevated levels of heat and air pollution). With future projections of both population growth and climate change, subsequent health risks are only expected to increase. For Belgium, one of Europe’s most urbanised countries, evidence is still scarce regarding the future climate change-related health impacts.
Within the TEMPUR project, we:
- develop future climate scenarios and population projections at high spatiotemporal scale for the entire country
- assess the climate change-related (cause-specific) excess mortality attributed to future temperatures, using classical and machine learning methods.
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