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Climate change is a direct threat to a child’s ability to survive, grow, and thrive.
As extreme weather events such as cyclones and heatwaves increase in frequency and ferocity, they threaten children’s lives and destroy infrastructure critical to their well-being.
Floods compromise water and sanitation facilities, leading to diseases such as cholera, to which children are particularly vulnerable.
Droughts and changing global rainfall patterns are leading to crop failures and rising food prices, which for the poor mean food insecurity and nutritional deprivations that can have lifelong impacts.
Close to 90 per cent of the burden of disease attributable to climate change is borne by children under the age of 5.
"Children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they will bear the greatest burden of its impact."