Time: Nov. 3, 2021 

Source: School of Medicine

At the beginning of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) on Nov. 1, collaborative research results of Prof. Ma Wenjun, of the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in JNU's School of Medicine, were published online in Nature Climate Change. The paper is titled Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities, and Ma is the corresponding author.

The research points out the health risks brought about by the increase in urban compound heat extremes caused by human activities. It provides new scientific insights for key areas and key populations to mitigate and adapt to extreme climates and changes in them. It also gives important inspiration for the study of the impact of climate change on human health in the field of public health.

This research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the general project of National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Strategic Priority Research Program (A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Figure1 Death risks at different degrees of temperature（Total、gender and age groups）

Figure 2 Different outside compulsory elements influence the compound high temperature in east China（a）

Figure 3 Predication on the frequency of the day-night hot extremes and the population exposure in different economic developments（b）

Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01196-2