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Climate change health costs to top $100B by mid-century

Climate change is likely to add more than $100 billion a year to Canada’s health-care costs by mid-century, says a report by a federally funded research group. Apart from body health, the extreme weather also affects on mental health.

“Those are all impacts we already know are happening. There is a clear connection to climate change and a good body of science on how people’s health outcomes relate to those stresses,” Ness said. Air quality is the biggest factor.

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