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The human health chapter in the second (“Impacts”) volume of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report concludes that the impact of climate change on our health is increasing significantly. In the next few decades, the largest impacts will occur in poorer and vulnerable populations and communities where illnesses such as under-nutrition and diarrhoeal disease are already high – thus widening further the world’s health disparities. A good summary of the health impacts described by the report can be found in The Conversation today, Climate change and health: IPCC reports emerging risks, emerging consensus.