Exposure to heat and air pollution in EUrope-cardiopulmonary impacts and benefits of mitigation and adaptation: EXHAUSTION

The overarching objective of EXHAUSTION is to quantify the changes in cardiopulmonary (CPD) mortality and morbidity due to extreme heat and air pollution under selected climate scenarios, while including a diverse set of adaptation mechanisms and strategies, calculate the associated costs, and identify effective strategies for minimizing adverse impacts. The results will be disseminated to the general public and key decision- and policy-makers across Europe, providing a tool to increase European resilience towards climate change.

The aim of Work Package 2 (WP2), in general, is to collect the epidemiological evidence on the complex relationship between exposure to ambient air temperature and CPD health, provide methodological guidance on how to properly estimate exposure-response relationships, and apply the methods on real data.

The resources deposited here, now and in the future, are and will be based on the key findings of WP2, which would be of relevance to stakeholders and policy-makers.