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Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa

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  • Loan Diep

    (The New School
    University College London)

  • Samuel Godfrey

    (University College London
    United Nations Development Programme UNDP)

  • Farai Tunhuma

    (United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF)

  • Luiza C. Campos

    (University College London)

  • Monica Lakhanpaul

    (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
    Whittington NHS Trust)

  • Priti Parikh

    (University College London)

Abstract

Children will bear some of the heaviest burdens of climate change, putting their survival and health at risk. Our Perspective underlines some of the critical routes through which climate change and its interactions with underlying factors of vulnerability affect children in Africa. We highlight the role of non-climatic factors or ‘socio-political stratifiers’ (poverty, housing conditions, conflicts and violence, displacement and migration) in increasing risks and reinforcing inequalities. We propose three priority areas of action to break vulnerability cycles and protect children: child-centred plans and policies that recognize children as rights bearers and agents of change; financial support for climate action for children; and climate-smart public facilities such as schools and health centres that can continually provide basic services.

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  • Loan Diep & Samuel Godfrey & Farai Tunhuma & Luiza C. Campos & Monica Lakhanpaul & Priti Parikh, 2025. "Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 15(3), pages 254-261, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:15:y:2025:i:3:d:10.1038_s41558-024-02197-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02197-7
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