Almost 530 million children live in countries hardest-hit by high floods and tropical storms, mostly in Asia.
An additional 160 million kids are growing up in areas suffering severe droughts, mostly in Africa, Unicef said in the report titled “Unless We Act Now”.
“Children will bear the brunt of climate change. They are already bearing a lot of the impact,” said Nicholas Rees, a policy specialist at Unicef and one of the report’s authors.
“The sheer number of children exposed to climate risk is alarming,” said the report.
US President Barack Obama and China’s Xi Jinping are joining more than 135 world leaders in Paris next week for an international conference aimed at clinching the first agreement on tackling global warming in 20 years.
The most urgent task is for world governments to agree on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, said Rees, but action is also needed on the national level to deal with the impact.
“When impacts occur, children must still be able to go to school and get the health care they need,” he said.
A key concern is exposure to diseases that could become deadlier as a result of climate change and rising temperatures, including malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition.
Heatwaves, which have become more frequent, are causing more severe rashes, cramps, exhaustion and dehydration, which is a common cause of hyperthermia and death among infants and young children.
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hmmmmmmmmmm.

Alimajrir's nko?

The situation here in Nigeria is also too pathetic.



Na wetin African leaders dey do to quench all these ugly incidence.


Poverty is on the street...


We no dey for say Nigeria looters don dey return stolen fund secretly....Abi 9ja government don become ghost government again. To recruit 10,000, to do this, to do that.

Mek govt ask himself questions o before it go too fall on them.

Life's hard...but become harder since bubu took over....