Climate change poses a threat to human health so great that it could undermine all the gains in global development during the past 50 years, an independent international commission reports on Tuesdaytoday.

一家独立的国际委员会今日报告称，气候变化对人类健康的影响如此巨大，可能会毁掉过去50年全球发展方面的全部进展。

The review, led by experts on medicine and economics at University College London and published in the Lancet, says immediate¹ action is needed to avert² the direct health impacts of climate change through heatwaves, other extreme weather events and the spread of infectious diseases — and indirect effects through factors such as forced migration³ and crop failures.

这份评估报告由伦敦大学学院(UCL)的医学和经济学专家牵头完成，发表在《柳叶刀》(Lancet)上。报告表示，需要马上采取行动，以避免热浪、其他极端天气事件和传染性疾病的蔓延对人类健康的直接冲击，以及被迫迁徙和作物歉收等因素对人类健康的间接影响。

“Climate change is a medical emergency,” said Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance and co-chair of the commission. “It thus demands an emergency response, using the technologies available now. Under such circumstances, no doctor would consider a series of annual case discussions and aspirations⁴ adequate, yet this is exactly how the global response to climate change is proceeding⁵.”

“气候变化是一种医疗紧急情况，”UCL人类健康与表现研究所(IHHP)所长、委员会联合主席休?蒙哥马利(Hugh Montgomery)表示，“因此，它要求使用现有技术进行应急响应。在这种情况下，没有哪位医生会认为一系列的年度病例讨论和抱负是足够的，但这正是目前全球对气候变化的响应方式。”

But the authors told a press previewsaid of the report in London on Mondayyesterday that they wanted to avoid issuing another gloom and doom⁶ warning about climate change.

但报告作者昨日在伦敦举行的报告介绍会上表示，他们想避免发出又一个“末日来临”的气候变化警告。

The biggest direct effect of projected climate change is on heatwaves. The number of people dying from extreme heat could increase 12-twelvefold by the end of this century, as a result of global warming combined with increasing numbers living in affected⁷ areas, said Georgina Mace⁸, director of the UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research.

据预测，气候变化的最大直接影响将是热浪。UCL生物多样性和环境研究中心(Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research)主任乔治娜?梅斯(Georgina Mace)表示，到本世纪末死于极热天气的人数可能会增加12倍，这是全球变暖和越来越多的人居住在受影响地区的叠加效果。