The Lancet Countdown report shows that climate change is already harming the health of children around the world, with lifelong impacts threatening them. If current patterns of high carbon emissions continue, a child born today will live on a planet that is on average 4°C warmer until the age of 71. This would threaten their health at every stage of their life. Children are also the ones who will suffer most from the rise in infectious diseases, such as dengue fever.
“The key message of this global report is that we need to pay attention to climate change now, so that children in the future are not so affected. Children will be affected, but so that they are not so affected,” said Dr. Mayara Floss, one of the authors of the report in Brazil.
