The National Climate Risk Assessment report has reinforced the ‘disastrous’ risks increasing temperatures will have on human health.

AMA president Danielle McMullen welcomed the release of the assessment, saying it underlined what the AMA and other health organisations had been saying ‘for years’.

“In 2019, we joined with the British Medical Association and Doctors for the Environment to call for action on climate change, warning of the disastrous impacts if nothing was done,” Dr McMullen said.

“The information in this assessment — including that heat-related deaths would surge 450 per cent (in Sydney alone) if global heating surpasses 3 degC — is terrifying, but it can’t be ignored."