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Without concerted and urgent action, climate change will exacerbate inequalities and widen gaps in human development, according to the new Human Climate Horizons (HCH) platform launched today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Climate Impact Lab.
Designed to empower people and decision makers everywhere, the platform allows users to see what climate change could mean for people’s lives using hyperlocal data from over 24,000 places around the world.
“Focusing on the effect of climate change on issues like mortality, labour and energy use, the new Human Climate Horizons puts vital data and analytics into the hands of policymakers, helping countries to take climate action where it is needed most,” says UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.
“For instance, the platform shows that stronger global efforts towards the Paris Agreement’s targets could reduce projected mortality from extreme heat in the year 2100 by more than 80%, saving tens of millions of lives.”
Freely available in the lead up to COP27, the HCH platform opens access to an evolving stream of research to help inform action to reduce the unequal effects of rising global greenhouse gas emissions.
Check out the full data at UNDP Human Climate Horizons
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