{"id":87032,"date":"2019-11-14T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:25:55","slug":"climate-change-is-already-damaging-health-of-children-says-lancet-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change-is-already-damaging-health-of-children-says-lancet-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is already damaging health of children, says Lancet report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Lancet\nCountdown on Health and Climate Change 2019 has warned that children will\nsuffer from a rise in infectious diseases, malnutrition and air pollution if\nglobal warming continues on the current trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About The Lancet\nCountdown on Health and Climate Change:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a comprehensive yearly analysis that\ntracks progress across 41 key indicators, demonstrating the health impacts of\nclimate change. It was first published in 2016.<\/li><li>The project is a collaboration between 120\nexperts from 35 institutions, including the World Health Organisation and the\nWorld Bank.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from\nthe Report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>With high carbon emissions and climate change\ncontinuing at the current rate, a child born today will face a world on average\nover 4\u02daC warmer by their 71st birthday, threatening their health at every stage\nof their lives.<\/li><li>Shrinking average yields of rice and maize will\ninflate the price of these crops, increasing the malnutrition burden.<\/li><li>Changing weather will increase the prevalence of\ninfectious diarrhoeal and mosquito-borne diseases to which children are\nparticularly susceptible<\/li><li>Air pollution will worsen, increasing the number\nof deaths attributable to fine particulates<\/li><li>Incidence of severe floods, prolonged droughts\nand wildfires will increase with rising temperature, and children will be most\nvulnerable<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2019 has warned that children will suffer from a rise in infectious diseases, malnutrition and air pollution if global warming continues on the current trajectory. Facts: About The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: It is a comprehensive yearly analysis that tracks progress across 41&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change-is-already-damaging-health-of-children-says-lancet-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate change is already damaging health of children, says Lancet report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4763],"class_list":["post-87032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cliamte-change-and-health","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704326082},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87032","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}