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More than half a million could die as climate change impacts diet â report. Climate change could kill more than 500,000 people a year globally by 2050 by making their diets less healthy, according to new research published in the Lancet. The research is the first to assess how the impacts of global warming could affect the quality of the diets available to people and found fewer fruit and vegetables would be available as a result of climatic changes.
Key facts. 1  Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health â clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. 2  Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress.