The evidence is clear that the world is struggling with the combined health, social and economic impacts of COVID, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a global energy crisis.She says it is “keeping households vulnerable to volatile fossil fuel markets, exposed to energy poverty, and dangerous levels of air pollution.”A total of 99 experts from 51 different organisations including University College London, the World Health Organisation and the World Meteorological Organisation contributed to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate.“It is undermining not just the health of our planet, but the health of people everywhere - through toxic air pollution, diminishing food security, higher risks of infectious disease outbreaks, record extreme heat, drought, floods and more.”Health-centred climate action could lead to a ‘thriving’ futureThe Lancet report says there is hope that climate action centred on health could deliver a “thriving future”.“This year’s Lancet Countdown makes clear that fossil fuels are incompatible with a healthy future,” says Dr Jeni Miller, executive director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance.“To prevent catastrophic global warming and the ensuing devastation that will be wreaked upon people around the world, governments must commit to fully phasing out fossil fuels at COP27.”Miller adds that high income countries must also provide developing nations with the necessary financial and technical support for the equitable access to clean energy that their people need."