Earth Equity News

Report Warns That Weakest Will Suffer Most. By Paul Eccleston, London Daily Telegraph, April 29, 2008. "The world's poorest and most vulnerable children are being hit hardest by climate change, according to UNICEF, [and will] face a world in which disasters, violence and disease will become more intense. A new report from UNICEF UK [Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility, PDF 40 pp]... says access to clean water and food supplies will become harder, particularly in African and Asia. It calls on the government to make children a priority and says UK companies must play their part by cutting CO2 emissions and contributing more to the costs of adapting to climate change. The report claims the effects of climate change is already having an adverse impact on children's lives and is hampering many of the targets agreed at a UN Millennium Development Summit in 2000 -- on poverty, disease, health and education -- being achieved... Its publication is timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol."