The Green Files: Climate change and the impact on children

The Green Files > Climate change and the impact on children

[The Gstaad Project] “It is clear that a failure to address climate change is a failure to protect children,” said UNICEF UK director David Bull. “Those who have contributed least to climate change ”” the world’s poorest children ”” are suffering the most.” .

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[Untitled] Poor children main victims of climate change - UN: LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of the world’s poorest children are among the principal victims of climate change caused by the rich developed world, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, calling for urgent action.

[SCCS Volunteers] UNICEF world’s poorest children hardest hit by climate change.: Today exactly ten years after the UK signed the Kyoto Protocol (on 29 April 1998) -The report, ”˜Our climate, our children, our responsibility: the implications of climate change for the world’s children’ draws attention to the fact that climate change is impacting very seriously on children and their rights. It calls for immediate action from the UK Government to make children a priority in the climate change agenda and calls on UK companies to substantially reduce emissions and contribute to the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change.

[Green News] Poor children main victims of climate change: UN: UNICEF UK director David Bull. “Those who have contributed least to climate change ”” the world’s poorest children ”” are suffering the most.“ The report said climate change could add 40000-160000 extra child deaths a year in Asia and .

[World Change Cafe] The tragic consequences of climate change for the world’s children: David Bull, UNICEF UK Executive Director, said, “Those who have contributed least to climate change - the world’s poorest children - are suffering the most. If the world does not act now to mitigate and adapt to the risks and realities .

[BadGalsRadio ~ I-riginal 100%GalBassed RooticalTruth] Global Warming Already Affecting Poor Children: The report is launched in the UK 10 years to the day after the government signed the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

[EarthWire UK RSS News Feed] Sydney's Poor Elderly Hit Hardest By Climate Change: SYDNEY - Climate change will hurt Sydney's poor and elderly the most, as many live in low-lying coastal areas vulnerable to rising sea levels and cannot afford technologies that protect them from life-threatening heatwaves.

[NCC Eco-Justice Weblog] Children, Poverty, and Climate Change: Children in the world’s poorest communities are the most vulnerable. They are already seeing the impacts of climate change through malnutrition, disease, poverty, inequality and increasing risk of conflict - and ultimately an increase in child mortality rates,”, the report puts into focus the reality that those bearing the least responsibility for the changing climate are those feeling the greatest impact.

[MediaScrape - All Stories] Climate change's first victims: "For us in a wealthy country, like the UK, of course we suffer from increased incidence of flooding and things like that, but we are much better equipped to cope with that. We have insurance and we have more support from government and we have better infrastructure and so on.

[An Inconvenient Blog] Warming ”˜affecting poor children’: The 2006 Stern Review concluded that climate change could increase annual child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by up to 160,000 through GDP loss alone.

[Robert Kyriakides's Weblog] Suing their wrappers off; journalists upset Tesco: Tesco has been assisted in this marvellously informative scheme by the Carbon Trust who seemed to have designed a logo of a black footprint with so many grams of carbon per product that will feature on these twenty chosen products The Carbon Trust has also devised the methodology to make these important calculations. In matters like this, the chaps always help the chaps, so that all the chaps can claim that they are helping poor misguided shoppers make the right choice by going to Tesco and picking the right stuff off their shelves.

[An Inconvenient Blog] Earthwire News 29th April 2008: The BBC’s Daniel Schweimler joins researchers diving for clues on climate change in waters off the tip of South America.

[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: 272 t, in a notable steady ongoing decline in gold output, followed by the United States/255 t, Australia/251 t, Indonesia/171 t, Peru/167 t, Russia/150 t, Brazil/125 t and Canada/93 t. The largest proven and probable ore reserves are in South Africa, the United States (Nevada, Alaska, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah), Russia, Canada, Brazil, Ghana and Simbabwe;

[Greenpeace UK blogs] Would you care about climate change more if you lived in a mud hut?: The poor, the vulnerable and the hungry are exposed to the harsh edge of climate change every day of their lives. The melting of the snows on the peak of Kilimanjaro is a warning of the changes taking place in Africa.