Is short-term thinking a barrier to environmental reform?
For many children in developing countries, the reality of climate change is intricately intertwined with children’s human rights to education, healthcare, shelter and sanitation. UNICEF estimated that, as of 2015, half a billion children—a quarter of the global child population—live in areas with high flood frequency and 160 million are susceptible to drought. Children are also more at risk than adults from dying of vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria and suffering from malnutrition and diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases—all problems worsened by increasing temperatures, air pollution, and water scarcity linked to climate change.
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