Health Issues India

“A child born today will experience a world that is more than four degrees warmer than the pre-industrial average, with climate change impacting human health from infancy and adolescence to adulthood and old age,” reads a report published yesterday by The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change - lending a chilling insight into the effects of our changing climate on child health.  The report “represents the findings and consensus of 35 leading academic institutions and UN agencies from every continent.” Its conclusions are clear, perhaps best expressed in one sentence: “children are among the worst-affected by climate change.” For India, there are numerous takeaways from the report.  “For an emerging and growing economy like India, the detrimental effects of a changing climate on the health of our current and future generations of children can have serious consequences for our demographic dividend,” Dr Poornima Prabhakaran, an author of The Lancet Countdown report and … Read Full Article about Child health: How climate change will affect it