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2007 Annual Consultation
Background Documents

Climate Change and Children

Climate change and urban children: Impacts and implications for adaptation in low and middle income countries (DRAFT PAPER) (Bartlett, S., 2008)

This paper discusses the probable impacts for children of different ages from the increasing risk of storms, flooding, landslides, heat waves, drought and water supply constraints that climate change is likely to bring to most urban centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It also explores the implications for adaptation, focusing on preparedness as well as responses to extreme events and to changes in weather patterns.


Climate change and children 

This UNICEF (2007) publication examines the effects of climate change on children. It highlights the need for collective expertise in sustainable development, energy security, and the health and well-being of children. Young people speak directly through comments and letters collected by UNICEF’s Voices of Youth, child delegates to the 2007 UNEP African Regional Children’s Conference for the Environment and the 2007 World Scout Jamboree, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme.nal Children’s Conference for the Environment and the 2007 World Scout Jamboree, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme.

 

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