Using the power of the sun to heat and treat water in Kenya’s urban slum Solvatten uses the power of the sun to make contaminated water drinkable. Petra Wadström, the Founder and CEO of Solvatten talks about her company’s efforts. https://soundcloud.com/momentumforchange/using-the-power-of-the-sun...
In this blog, Christopher Thomas argues that how children are educated and socialized with respect to the environment and climate change will determine how the next generation mitigates and adapts to the world's climate change crisis. Our world is very different than our grandparent’s. In 1950...
In this blog, David Stewart, Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection at UNICEF HQ, argues that social protection is the most crucial sector in helping children and their families cope with and recover from the negative effects of the climate change crisis. Our guest blogger, David Stewart, is...
Executive summary Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over recent decades, today’s children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological degradation, migrating populations, conflict, pervasive inequalities, and predatory commercial practices threaten the...
In this episode, host Aaron Warnick speaks about climate change's impact on children along with Lelya McCrudy, chair of the APHA's Children's Environmental Health Committee, and Dr. Aaron Bernstein, co-director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan...
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2015—with an average global temperature 1.6° Fahrenheit warmer than the twentieth-century average—was Earth’s warmest year since record keeping began in 1880, continuing a half-century-long trend of rising temperatures. The debate...
Summary There are currently 2.3 billion children under the age of 18 living on earth who are among the group of people most vulnerable to climate change. Already today the global average temperature is 1°C above pre industrial times. The likelihood of children to live in a 1.5°, 2° and 3° world is...
The recently published Lancet report confirms that children around the world will be profoundly affected by climate change. Already today, children are suffering from the effects of climate change and carry a disproportionate burden compared with adults. Considering the climate impacts that children...