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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least 1,500 deaths in Britain can be directly linked to climate change since 2000, as the country grappled with severe heatwaves, while four major floods caused billions in financial losses, Oxford University scientists said on Tuesday.
In a study, they analysed existing data from two deadly heatwaves in 2003 and 2018, as well as four floods between 2000 and 2016 that cost about an estimated $18 billion in losses.
They found that at least half of the total damages and deaths that occurred could be attributed to climate change.
Friederike Otto, acting director of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and one of the study’s authors, said far more data needed to be collected and analysed worldwide for the true consequences of climate change to be understood.
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“We see you and we hear you,” wrote the 67 signatories of the letter, mostly of Ghanaian heritage, including architect Sir David Adjaye, former Labour Party shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful.
Idris Elba, whose mother was from Ghana, and model Campbell, who is not of Ghanaian heritage, also signed the letter published on Twitter under the banner of “Ghana Supports Equality”.
The offices of Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo and the country’s government did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
LGBT+ people face widespread persecution in the West African nation where gay sex is punishable by up to three years in jail.