Research shows that children born in 2020 experience 'four times more extreme weather' than those born in 1960.
Life is a continuum of everyday life, but that everyday life varies greatly from generation to generation depending on world conditions such as war and technology. Regarding global warming, which has been criticized in recent years, a research result was announced that 'children born in recent years experience about four times as much abnormal weather as children 60 years ago.'
Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes
CLIMATE CRISIS – Children face life with far more heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires than grandparents | Save the Children International
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/climate-crisis-%E2%80%93-children-face-life-far-more-heatwaves-floods-droughts-and-wildfires
Children Born Today Are in For a Life Full of Natural Disasters, Unless We Act Now
https://www.sciencealert.com/children-today-will-experience-up-to-7-times-more-climate-disasters-than-their-grandparents
A joint research team from Save the Children, an NGO that supports children, and the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, has published a study that explains the increase in extreme weather in terms of 'the amount that children experience.' The research team calculates 'the number of abnormal weather encounters in life' based on 6 types of abnormal weather forecast data based on the Paris Agreement and forecast data of the world population such as population growth and life expectancy. .. As a result, children born in 2020 have twice as many experiences of extreme weather as grandparents born in the 1960s, 2.6 times more wildfires, 2.6 times more droughts, 2.8 times more crops, and 2.8 times more river floods. The result was that the heat wave was doubled and the heat wave was 6.8 times larger.
Extreme weather events are particularly common in some countries, with children in Afghanistan up to 18 times more likely to experience heat waves than older people and up to 10 times more likely to experience malnutrition in Mali. So, Save the Children said, 'Children living in low- and middle-income countries and underprivileged areas are already at very high risk of water-based infections, hunger, malnutrition, floods, cyclones, etc. I live in a house that is at very high risk of extreme weather, and the increase in extreme weather will cause the greatest damage. '
The results of this study do not take into account the possibility that disasters that take a long time to occur, such as coastal floods due to sea level rise, and climate change will worsen, and that the same climate disaster will occur multiple times in a year. Even if it is done, it is counted as one time, and it is an 'underestimated value'. Save the Children has stated that the current climate change measures 'will have unacceptable consequences for children.'
Based on the agreement of the Paris Agreement, it was estimated that the temperature would rise by 2.6 to 3.1 degrees Celsius from the Industrial Revolution to 2100. Based on the results of this study, Save the Children argued that the temperature rise of 2.6-3.1 degrees Celsius should be reduced to '1.5 degrees Celsius or less.' He explained that if the temperature rise is less than 1.5 degrees Celsius, the number of extreme weather events that children experience can be significantly reduced.
Save the Children International CEO Inger Asing said, 'Children in low- and middle-income countries and underprivileged areas will be most affected, but other regions will be severely affected by climate change. Children are no different. Safe places such as heat waves in the United States and Canada, mountain fires in Australia, floods in Europe and China, and multiple droughts causing food crises in Afghanistan, Madagascar and Somalia. It turns out that there is nowhere else. If we don't take immediate action, we will hand over a deadly future to our children, 'he said, emphasizing the importance of climate change measures. bottom.
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