Failure to restrict global warming at 1.5 ° C BiH would convict 83 percent of today’s five-year-old on dangerous levels of extreme heat in their lives, new research has been published today.
Report posted by preservation Children I VREVO UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, MAP Climate crisis About children by simulating climate outcomes over several temperature extremes.
The world is currently on the way to 2.7 ° C heating, According to the latest policies and obligations. Such a scenario is expected to result in 100 million children born in 2020. – 83 percent of the total born that year – must face unprecedented exposure to life extreme Thermal waveswhich disrupts access to food and clean water and force schools to close.
Hitting 1.5 ° C Parisian agreement The goal would reduce that number to 62 million, protection of 38 million children from dangerous heat waves and the protection of their mental and physical development, researchers were found.
Other climate outcomes modeled by researchers include cyclonesCrop failures, flood rivers, wild and drought.
For children born 2020. year, holding global temperatures up to an increase of 1.5 ° C, not 2.7 ° C to 2100, would be free to eight million children from unprecedented crop failure; five million from unprecedented exposure to river floods; and five million from unprecedented exposure to tropical cyclones.
Limiting global temperatures to 1.5 ° C, not 2.7 ° C, two million children from unprecedented drush and 1.5 million children from unprecedented wilderness.
Shurut Agarwal, Sales Climate Advisor to save children, added that new research shows how these children who are “forced to bear the Grun Crisis for”.
“This new survey shows that there is still hope, but only if we act urgently and ambicistically restrict heating temperatures at 1.5 ° C and we truly place children and the center of our response to Climate change At every level, “she said.
Martina Bogado Duffner, Senior Advisor for Advocacy Climate at Sava Children International, said Independent that Current pressures on international assistance budgets are set to increase the likelihood of negative impacts.
“At the time, almost 200 million children around the world relies on auxiliary assistance, and the climate crisis threatens their rights and future, some world richest countries turn their backs and reset their help budgets,” she said.
“These sudden financing cuts put children in the life situation, while climate extremes such as dangerous thermal, cyclones and crop failures are more often and harder.
Many programs that support lower income countries with and climate mitigation and adaptation already affect decisions on reducing assistance, added.
With global temperatures that have already increased On average 1.3 ° C Compared to pre-industrial levels, extreme climate outcomes are already influenced by millions of children globally.
Zain, 13-year-old from rural PakistanRecently described daily struggles facing the community due to climate and thermal challenges.
“When we wake up in the morning and feel hot. When we go to school, there is no fan or water. There is no solar and electricity. We are weak for intense heat,” he said. “When we return home, we often faint from intense heat or suffer from diarrhea, stomachache and dizziness.”
At the time of the interview, the temperatures in the region were over 50 ° C, during the heating entry that killed hundreds of people. But his region is devastated by floods, including the floods of 2022. year that left thousands of displaced and 1,700 dead.
These same floods forced Zain and his family from his village after destroying their home, leaving them for days without the appropriate shelter or food.
“Previously, our hut often blows in storms, and we would soak in the rain. We had to work hard to restore it, just to get it out again,” he said.
The family received a new home preservation of children, which is resistant to climate threats that face in the area, holding them with cold and raised floors to protect them from flood.
But a charitable organization warns in their new report that such support is under threats of “worrising low” climatic flows for funding. The authors add that the main global Objective for climate finance of $ 300 billion for low-income countries By 2035. Year, which was agreed on the COP29 Climate Conference last year, “Falls far short climate needs”.
“Involving children’s rights and needs in deciding on financial flows is equally important to deal with their marked and increased vulnerabilities,” Authors arise.
First ever Overview Focused on children International climate finances, which was published in 2023. year, only 2.4 percent of the funds from the main climate assets are awarded to projects involving children’s activities.
“The goal for climate finances agreed in COP29 last year failed Children and their families demolished climate change, “Save children Martin Bogado Duffner said Independent.
“We have always said that climate finances should be further what is already coming from traditional budgets for assistance. With all funding to reduce, children’s rights and future are at risk without emergency and ambitious actions.”
This story is part of independent Reviewing global help series