{"id":128790,"date":"2021-08-26T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128790"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:45:26","slug":"climate-crisis-putting-a-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-warns-new-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-crisis-putting-a-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-warns-new-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate crisis putting a billion children at \u2018extremely high risk,\u2019 warns new UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/climate-change\/climate-crisis-putting-a-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-warns-new-un-report-78630\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A recent report by UNICEF has stated the children across the globe are vulnerable to the climate crisis. Article highlights the findings of the report.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Children\u2019s Climate Risk Index\u00a0(CCRI)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently UNICEF along with &#8216;Fridays with Future&#8217; launched a new report called <strong>&#8220;The Climate Crisis Is a Child&#8217;s Rights Crisis&#8221;<\/strong> highlighting the impact of climate change on the lives of children.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0report introduces the new\u00a0<strong>Children\u2019s Climate Risk Index\u00a0(CCRI)<\/strong>, a composite index that ranks nations based on children\u2019s exposure to climate shocks. It provides the first comprehensive look at how exactly children are affected by the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Findings\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 1 billion children \u2014 nearly half the world\u2019s child population \u2014 live in countries that are at an \u201c<strong>extremely high risk<\/strong>\u201d from climate impacts<\/li>\n<li>Almost every single child on the planet has been exposed to at least one climate or environmental stressors, such as air pollution, flooding, heatwaves, tropical storms, flooding, or drought.<\/li>\n<li>The report found that children are \u201c<strong>highly exposed\u201d<\/strong> to exceedingly high levels of air pollution, water scarcity, heat waves, vector-borne diseases, tropical storms, and coastal flooding.<\/li>\n<li>The 33 extremely high-risk countries for children \u2014 including the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau \u2014 collectively are <strong>responsible for a mere 9% of global carbon dioxide emissions<\/strong>, reflecting deep inequity regarding who must ultimately deal with the consequences of climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Suggestions<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Governments and businesses<\/strong> should protect children from the climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gas emissions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing investments<\/strong> in health and hygiene services, education, and clean water.<\/li>\n<li>Providing children with <strong>climate education and green skills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Including <strong>young people in climate negotiations<\/strong> and decision-making<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ensuring a \u201cgreen, low-carbon and inclusive\u201d COVID-19 recovery \u201c<\/strong>so that the capacity of future generations to address and respond to the climate crisis is not compromised.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Terms to know<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fridays-for-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fridays for Future<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down to Earth What is the news? A recent report by UNICEF has stated the children across the globe are vulnerable to the climate crisis. Article highlights the findings of the report. Children\u2019s Climate Risk Index\u00a0(CCRI) Recently UNICEF along with &#8216;Fridays with Future&#8217; launched a new report called &#8220;The Climate Crisis Is a Child&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-crisis-putting-a-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-warns-new-un-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate crisis putting a billion children at \u2018extremely high risk,\u2019 warns new UN report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-128790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-climate-change","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700789635,"cached_date":1704898749},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}