Child health: How climate change will affect it
“A child born today will experience a world that is more than four degrees warmer than the pre-industrial average, with climate change impacting human health from infancy and adolescence to adulthood and old age,” reads a report published yesterday by The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – lending a chilling insight into the effects of our changing climate on child health.
The report “represents the findings and consensus of 35 leading academic institutions and UN agencies from every continent.” Its conclusions are clear, perhaps best expressed in one sentence: “children are among the worst-affected by climate change.” For India, there are numerous takeaways from the report.
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