The 2025 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change found that since the 1990s, the rate of heat-related deaths has jumped 23% to 546,000 a year.
Climate change is making the revival harder, with earlier-dissipating mist, erratic rainfall, and increasingly intense typhoons threatening tea plants and increasing landslide risks.
Activists challenged efforts to position Africa as a new frontier for fossil fuel development, arguing that further investment would worsen climate change.
