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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Climate change will hit 175m kids every year' by Himanshi Dhawan

'Climate change will hit 175m kids every year' by Himanshi Dhawan

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published Published on Dec 6, 2009   modified Modified on Dec 6, 2009

A new report suggests that 175 million children will be affected every year by frequent natural disasters caused due to climate change. Painting a grim future, a report by child rights NGO Save the Children said climate change was the biggest global health threat to children that could increase risk of deaths due to diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria and other diseases because of reduced community access to clean water, nutritious food and hygienic surroundings.

The report — ‘Feeling the Heat: Child Survival in a Changing Climate’ — links access to basic facilities with climate change. It said that 2 million children under 5 years of age die each year in India. Pointing out that this was the highest number anywhere in the world, the report said children were dying from a small number of preventable diseases, such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia.

“Climate change will make these conditions worse, placing children at greater risk, because it will reduce poor communities’ access to clean water, reduce their ability to grow nutritious food, increase food prices and allow malaria mosquitoes to spread,” the report said.

The average number of natural disasters has increased from 200 a year to more than 400, and this is predicted to increase by as much as 320% in the next 20 years. The report said climate change disasters would also continue to increase malnutrition and certain diseases that often kill children. It estimated that malnutrition, which affects 178 million worldwide and is associated with up to 3.2 million child deaths each year, would affect 25 million more children by 2050. Already, one-third of all malnourished children live in India.

Calling for world leaders to sign a deal at Copenhagen, Save the Children CEO Thomas Chandy said, “Climate change has put India at risk of not meeting the millennium development goals, and even taking several steps backwards from what has been accomplished to date. Children, who are not responsible for climate change, will be the ones who are hardest hit.”

The report added that India lagged behind in its commitment to reducing under 5 mortality by 2015. Given present trends, India will not meet MDG 4 until 2020,five years after the promised date. “We fear that any progress India makes in reducing child mortality will be further slowed down by the effects of climate change,” Chandy said.


The Times of India, 7 December, 2009, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Climate-change-will-hit-175m-kids-every-year/articleshow/5308861.cms
 

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