From @yaleenvironment360: Children play in floodwaters after torrential rains in South Jakarta, Indonesia, January 17, 2013.⁠
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Under current climate policy, the average child born in 2020 will live through around seven times as many heat waves as someone born in 1960. They will also see roughly twice as many droughts and wildfires and close to three times as many crop failures as their grandparents did.⁠
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Climate change will exact a more punishing toll in poorer countries. If world leaders fail to agree to more ambitious policies at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland in November, children who grow up in Europe or Central Asia will see around four times as many extreme weather events, while those living in sub-Saharan Africa will see roughly six times as many — including 50 times as many heat waves. Researchers have strong reason to believe that these calculations underestimate the actual increases that young people will face.⁠
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Photo Credit: Kate Lamb / Voice of America

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