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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finally, we quantified individual companies' emissions' contributions to heat-related deaths using a simple 'market-share' approach that quantifies attributable deaths in proportion to emissions. The six highest-emitting companies globally caused at least one additional death each summer since 2004.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We then quantified heat-mortality during and outside heatwaves. The hottest temperatures often get the most attention - and heat deaths are indeed highest then - but three-quarters of heat mortality attributable to human influence on the climate in 2018 occurred outside of the 12-day heatwave.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland to justify its finding that Switzerland needed to reduce emissions: "Although the applicants could agree that adaptation was also crucial, it was not an answer to what Switzerland should have done to mitigate climate change." hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#_ftnref178

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We conducted experiments where we applied the heat-mortality relationship from the 1980s/90s to 2004-2018 as a 'constant vulnerability' baseline and found that >700 deaths had been avoided by declining vulnerability. But attributable heat-related deaths had continued to rise in any case.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years. We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Out now: new guidance for research that attributes health outcomes to climate change led by @krisebi.bsky.social, Andy Haines @lshtm.bsky.social, myself, supported by a fantastic team of co-authors and @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🚨 Out now in @climate-policy.bsky.social: New research with @thomwetzer.bsky.social @rubenpruetz.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social Lavanya Rajamani, Marianne Wood and Ewan White: States are depending heavily on CO2 removal to meet climate targets, risking the Paris Agreement goal.

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