0398 Climate change threats to occupational health and productivity at population level

Climate change will cause increasing environmental heat levels in large parts of the world. The heat levels for millions of people working outdoors or indoors without air conditioning, particularly in tropical areas, are already so high that physiological limits are exceeded and health risks and productivity loss occurs. Using data on climate and working population size for 67,000 geographic grid cells (size = 0.5 × 0.5 degrees) based on...