“There may be no greater, growing threat facing the world’s children– and their children – than climate change.”– UNICEF

Climate crisis

 In July 2019, the coalition Call It a Climate Crisis Campaign began circulating an online petition that in part says.

"Climate crisis" or "climate emergency" is a description of climate change and global warming used by a variety of scientists, governments and other organisations to describe how anthropogenic  effects on the climate are proceeding so quickly that they believe the world is facing a global crisis. 

A number of governments and local authorities around the world have made climate emergency declarations. Published Titled Climate Crisis.

children are getting affected due to this climate crisis. In the future they are going to face  much worse situations. Climate change is exposing them to life-threatening dangers and harming their health and development

The climate crisis is not an abstract future threat. The 1.1°C rise in global average temperature is presently causing devastating heat waves, forest fires, extreme weather patterns, floods, and sea level rise, infringing on the human rights of millions of people globally. Because children are among the most vulnerable to these life-threatening impacts, physiologically and mentally, they will bear the burden of these harms far more and far longer than adults. 

Global warming is caused by human activities that emit carbon dioxide (“CO2”) and other greenhouse gases (“GHG”)2 into the atmosphere of the planet. Each day, the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial processes, and agriculture add hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, where it will remain for centuries. There is now more CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 800,000 years. 

The Earth is 1.1°C hotter than before the industrial revolution, and it is approaching a tipping point of foreseeable and irreversible great damage  effects. If the Earth reaches 2°C of heating, the very bad  air pollution alone is forecast to cause 150 million deaths. If the Earth reaches 3-4°C of heating by 2100—which is the current path if states do not make drastic emissions reductions—the impacts of climate change will threaten the lives and welfare of over 2 billion children.

Key Points of climatic conditions.

* Hotter temperatures foster the spread of infectious diseases and exacerbate health hazards.

* Wildfires are growing more frequent and intense because of hotter and drier conditions.

* Heat waves and drought are threatening children’s lives and creating water scarcity.

* Extreme storms that were once rare are now regular events.

* Floods and rising sea levels are transforming children’s relationships with the land.

*Climate change has affected children’s mental health around the world.