The Negative Impact Of Climate Change On Children

Climate Change is defined as a change in the pattern of weather and related changes in oceans, land surfaces and ice sheets, occurring over time scales of decades or longer.

The people that are being affected by climate change are children in developing countries that already suffer tough times but their lives become tougher because of climate change. They need to put up with harsh consequences, they will have less water and less crops for food and their health will also be affected. These children produce very little or no carbon emissions yet the impact of climate change for them will be huge. Due to changing temperatures and rainfall patterns, malaria cases will increase. These children and their families already experience poverty, hunger and illness.
It is debated that climate change impacts differently on men and women, the rich and poor and on populations living in rich countries as in Europe and America to those living in sub-Saharan African countries. This is where the majority of the people are struggling to meet their basic every day needs for survival.

It is these poor and vulnerable communities that are the first to experience the negative impacts of climate change such as heat-related illness and death, respiratory and other infectious diseases, unaffordable rise in energy costs and extreme natural