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Climate Change and Children

Document number
1942
Date
2007
Title
Climate Change and Children
Author/publisher
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Globalisation; Global warming, Food security, Natural resources
Summary
Young people today are aware of the need to protect the environment. When they are asked to list the issues that most concern them, one issue that features highly on their agenda is climate change. They are right to be concerned. While we still have a lot to learn about the consequences of climate change, economic and social development cannot be sustainable unless we deal decisively with this issue. It has the potential to add to the insecurity faced by some of the most vulnerable people in some of the most vulnerable countries. New fi gures released earlier this year show solid progress on child survival, including a decline in the annual number of under-fi ve deaths. Global child deaths have reached a record low, falling below 10 million per year to 9.7 million, down from almost 13 million in 1990.
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