🔵 How education can transform children's anxiety into agency in the climate emergency

Politics

Growing evidence shows how climate change is negatively affecting children’s health and wellbeing throughout the life course. Children who were aged 10 or younger in 2020 will live in a much hotter world than their grandparents born in the 1960s: under a 1.5°C warming scenario, these children will experience climate events four times as extreme.1 Climate exacerbated disasters have disrupted the education of nearly 40 million children each year by destroying schools or causing illnesses that keep children out of school. Over the past six years, climate exacerbated disasters have led to the internal displacement of 20 000 children a day.2More children are realising how profoundly climate change affects their right to health, education, and a safe ...

BMJ     Oct 09, 2024