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UN report: About a billion children in the world are at extreme risk due to the climate crisis - Walla! News

2021-08-21T06:33:12.548Z


According to the organization, about half of all children in the world are at risk due to one or more of the effects of the crisis, as they are more vulnerable to climate hazards compared to adults. They are raising their eyes to the UN summit in November, in which young people will take part: "The decisions made at it will define their future."


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UN report: About a billion children worldwide are at extreme risk due to the climate crisis

According to the organization, about half of all children in the world are at risk due to one or more of the effects of the crisis, as they are more vulnerable to climate hazards compared to adults.

They are raising their eyes to the UN summit in November, in which young people will take part: "The decisions made at it will define their future."

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Almost half of the 2.2 billion children in the world are too high hazard "effects of climate change - according to a report of" UNICEF ", the International Children's Emergency Fund of the United Nations. The organization described the situation Awful unimaginable way."



Billion Children Life in 33 countries around the world faces three or four influences simultaneously.The countries include India, Nigeria and the Philippines and much of sub-Saharan Africa, along with the fact that almost every child around the world faces at least one of the following effects: heat waves, floods Cyclones, diseases, droughts and air pollution. The



report is the first to combine climate data and environmental impacts with data related to children's vulnerabilities, such as poverty and access to clean water, health and education. One of the authors of the report.

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One billion children worldwide are at "immediate and immediate risk" from the effects of the climate crisis.

Heat wave in India (Photo: AP)

The report was launched with young climate activists on the third anniversary of Greta Thonberg's first strike at the school, which sparked a worldwide struggle. Following a halt to public demonstrations during the Corona plague, a global climate strike is planned for September 24.



"For the first time, we get a complete picture of where and how children are harmed as a result of climate change," said Henrietta Four, UNICEF CEO, "and this picture is almost inconceivable." Food and water in relation to their body weight, and they are more vulnerable to extreme weather conditions. "The



report calls for young people to be included in all climate-related negotiations, including the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow in November. "The decisions they make will define the future of the young. They should be seen as the legal heirs of this planet that we all share," Pur said.



"We are not only victims, but also leaders of the struggle," Thunberg argued, "but the world does not yet treat the climate crisis as an emergency. We are still just talking instead of doing a real thing. On the other hand, there are millions of people recruited, especially young people, and that is a step It is very important in the right direction. "

"Goni" typhoon damage in the Philippines, last year (Photo: Reuters)

Nkusilati Niati, a climate activist from Zimbabwe, testifies that climate change affects him personally.

He said extreme heat waves and floods had interrupted his schooling and farmers in his village were struggling with the unpredictable weather that plagued their area.

"I am excited that young people will be able to make decisions on the issue. Young people are the most valuable natural resource in the world."



The report notes that the effects of the climate crisis are "clearly unequal" and are likely to worsen.

"The ten countries at highest risk are responsible for only 0.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions," Rees said.


The report also found that 920 million children were exposed to water shortages, 820 million were exposed to extreme heat waves and 600 million to diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, which could worsen as the climatic conditions for mosquitoes spread.

"We want them to stop talking and start doing."

Thonberg (Photo: AP)

"There is still time to act," Pur said. "Improving children's access to essential services can significantly increase their chances of surviving these climate hazards. UNICEF calls on governments and businesses to listen to children and prioritize actions that will protect them from these effects. This, while accelerating actions to dramatically minimize greenhouse gas emissions."



Mitzi Jungle Tan, a young campaign manager from the Philippines who helped prepare the report, said one of the reasons she is a climate activist is that she was born into the radical changes in them. "I was afraid as a child to drown in my bedroom because of the typhoons outside." According to her, the summit meeting in Glasgow "must be the one that will change something", after for so long so many conferences did not bring results.



"It is impossible to stress enough how much responsibility the British government now has," Thunberg declared, referring to the forthcoming summit.

According to her, the assumption that Britain is leading the fight against the climate crisis is incorrect, because it itself does not implement the reduction of greenhouse gases enough.

"We want them to stop talking and start doing."

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