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Refining Methods for Attributing Health Impacts to Climate Change: A Heat-Mortality Case Study in Zürich

Summary/Abstract

This paper provides refined methodologies for assessing heat mortality attributed to climate change, building on existing epidemiological methods and using a case study from the summer 2018 in Zürich, Switzerland.

The study finds that almost 1,700 heat-related deaths can be attributed to human-caused climate change between 1969 and 2018.

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September 2025
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Sihan Li, Friederike E.L. Otto, Kristine Belesova, Andy Haines, Luke J. Harrington, Jeremy J. Hess, Rashmi Venkatraman, Thom Wetzer, Alistair Woodward & Kristie L. Ebi
Climatic Change
Peer-reviewed Study
Europe
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Impact Attribution → Public Health

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