While air pollution from PM2.5-emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America, air pollution from wildfires is increasing. With climate change, we will see more wildfires, risking that the impacts of the efforts that have been made to mitigate air pollution and related negative health effects could be diminished.

The recently published report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) paints a gloomy picture of what the future may hold regarding impacts of climate change. We have looked at some of the main findings regarding the core topics of the ENBEL project – health impacts related to environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires), and infectious diseases.