A UNICEF report titled - The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis - pointed out that more than one billion (of a total 2.2 billion) children are facing one or more extreme climate impacts including heatwaves, floods, cyclones, disease, drought, and air pollution. The report found 920 million children are highly exposed to water scarcity, 820 million to heatwaves, and 600 million to vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, which are likely to get worse as suitable climate conditions for mosquitoes and pathogens spread. These children mostly belong to underdeveloped or developing nations. The countries include India, Nigeria and the Philippines, and much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The report also calls for the inclusion of young people in all climate negotiations and decisions, including at the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow in November. The report was followed by reactions from several environmental and climate change activists including Greta Thunberg.
Source: The Guardian
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