The dramatic future of children around the world struggling with the effects of climate change in the new Save the Children report
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousSave the Children has published a new dramatic report, "Born in a climate crisis: Why we must act now to protect children's rights" which captures how the perspective of children of the past and today has changed and how they will face the serious consequences of climate change.
The report, produced in collaboration with an international team of climate researchers led by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), speaks clearly and presents alarming data. Children born today are much more exposed than their grandparents to the effects of the climate: they will face excessive heat waves on average 7 times more than people born in the 60s, they will be affected 2,6 times more by drought and 2,8, XNUMX times more from floods as well as double the number of fires.
A real alarm that concerns children but whose responsibility weighs on us all. As Save The Children writes:
86% of global CO2 emissions are the responsibility of the richest countries but it is the children living in low- and middle-income ones and in the most disadvantaged communities who will be affected first and most heavily. The impacts of climate change can disrupt access to health care and education for the most vulnerable children, such as girls affected by gender inequalities, displaced or refugee populations, disabled children and indigenous peoples.
Climate change, therefore, and its devastating effects will have consequences that go far beyond environmental problems. And, as always, already disadvantaged children, such as those living in sub-Saharan Africa, who will face 2,6 times more crop losses, will suffer the most.
Furthermore, some of these children run the risk of having to face several disasters simultaneously or in any case one after the other with the effect of being at risk of poverty in the long term.
But there is also hope. This trend can still be reversed, as long as the temperature increase is limited to 1,5 degrees, thus respecting the objective of the Paris Agreement. So:
Additional exposure of current infants to excessive heat waves will decrease by 45%, by 39% by drought, by 38% by river flooding, by 28% by crop loss, and by 10% by devastation from fires .
You can download the full report here.
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Fonte: Save The Children
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