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Today’s children are the first generation to be born into a world disrupted by global climate change.
Small children, are the most vulnerable population to all climate change impacts.
The IPCC 2022 6th Assessment has few references to children Once details how "Children are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts"Jointly, sudden losses of food production and access to food compounded by decreased diet diversity have increased malnutrition in many communities (high confidence), especially for Indigenous Peoples, small-scale food producers and low-income households (high confidence), with children, elderly people and pregnant women particularly impacted (high confidence). Roughly half of the world’s population currently experience severe water scarcity for at least some part of the year due to climatic and non-climatic (medium confidence).
Th IPCCC needs a special section on the children's climate emergeny
Born into the Climate Crisis: Why we must act now to secure children’s rights Why we must act now to secure children’s rights, 2021, Save the Children with Vrije Universiteit Brussels experts
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THE IPCC AR6 had disappointing dirth of children's climate emergency content (2 mentions)