Children's Climate Emergency
Managed by Dr. Peter Carter
Managed by Dr. Peter Carter
The climate crisis poses an “existential risk” to the health and wellbeing of all children and action to tackle it is needed immediately Britain’s most senior paediatrician Dr Camilla Kingdon (The Guardian, 21 Oct. 2023).
Young children are the most vulnerable population to all climate change impacts in all countries, and they will experience the worst climate change impacts increasing over their life-time. There is universal science agreement on this.
Children are supposed to be protected from climate change hard under the UN
UN 1948 Universal Declaration of human rights in Article 25
1959 UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child on the Rights of the Child
1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
legal appeals are routinely fought vigorously by governments, with national courts rejecting a children's right to climate safety.
Last year (2023) was a record 1.45°C of global warming and temperatures are still increasing in 2024 .
The IPCC Assessment says the globally disastrous 1.5°C will unavoidably impact soon after 2030.
2°C will impact by 2050, without immediate rapid global emissions decline, as called for by IPCC AR6,
and so the climate catastrpe 2°C will impact by 2050.
For years the IPCC reports ( UNEP and many others) over many years have documented that limiting global warming to 1.5°C and 2°C, has required global emissions to decline by 2020. Every IPCC Assessment has put 2020 as the very latest to have global emissions in decline.
30 years after the 1992 signing of the UN climate change convention, all climate indicators are record high increasing as fast as ever- some faster (WMO State of Climate in 2023)
UNICEF petition Children climate crisis petition
Unprecented Crime on the World's Children
Unprecedented committed (unavoidable) suffering and loss of life affecting children from climate change impacts (increasing for all their life), is documented by this site, with evidence it is an unprecedented crime, requiring at a minimum immediate rapid global emissions decline (as IPCC AR6). This requires immediate unconditional termination of all GHG polluting subsidies
Urgent advocacy is needed for children's rights from professionals and public to drive climate change ignoring political will.
Governments and world powers are promoting continued extraction of fossil fuels (including increasing fossil fuel subsidies) and emissions are at record high being increased.
The IPCC AR6 found continued policies leads to a global catastrophic heating of 3.2°C.
CHILDREN ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO ALL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The kids aren't alright — climate change impacts on children now and in the future
Sept. 2019 expert report by Climate Analytics
It pointed out 2.5 billion children living today will live to see a 1.5°C warmer world, more than 90% of today’s 16-year-olds would live to see a 2°C warm world.
Rising seas, increasingly frequent and intense extreme events such as tropical storms, extreme precipitation, droughts and floods, decreasing crop yields, which threaten food security, water stress and increasing health issues are only some of the impacts children will have to live with.
The IPCC Chairs have called for the immediate rapid decline of global emissions at the high profile UN climate conferences for the past five years. The IPCC 2022 6th Assessment, requires global emissions to decline 2020-2025- immediately.
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Today's children are the first generation born into a climate changed Earth
Small children are the most vulnerable to all climate change impacts 1. At present and 2. Throughout their lives
The IPCC AR6 SYR Headline Statements includes: 'There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all'
IPCC 6th Assessment 2023
UNEP 2021 annual emissions
Gap Report
