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The climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
The ElephantThe climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
Children uprooted in a changing climate
2024-07-28 (or before) in UNICEFYoung people on the move are among the most impacted by climate change. They should be part of shaping the response
Tagged under: Women and Children | Climate Change | Children | Climate Change Impacts
Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die
2024-06-26 in The GuardianAlarm over high mortality and miscarriage rates as mutated virus spreads in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tagged under: Women and Children
Climate Change, Volume 2 - Information for Children
2024-06-19 (or before) in kids.frontiersin.orgOur climate refers to the different types of weather we have all around the world. Some places are hot, some are cold, some are dry and some are wet. But now, our climate is changing and it's affecting everything and everyone. We know that this is happening because of the pollution we make, like putting greenhouse-gases into the air that trap the sun's heat and make our world get warmer. This is called global warming. <br/><br/>The changes in the climate are hurting people, animals, and plants everywhere and will continue to do so. In this Collection, we will explain what is causing the climate to change, what we can...
Tagged under: Children | Climate Change | Women and Children
Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again | Nemonte Nenquimo
2024-06-16 in The GuardianThis forest is our home, our existence and our children’s future. Politicians who can’t resist selling it for oil cash will feel the strength of the Waorani people, writes campaigner Nemonte Nenquimo
Tagged under: Women and Children
Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions
2024-05-13 (or before) in Wiley Interdisciplinary ReviewsExtractive economic growth fundamentally contradicts the goals of socioecological sustainability and social justice.
Tagged under: Economics | Women and Children | Colonialism
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families
2024-05-10 in The GuardianA fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Smoke, heat keeping Canadian kids indoors instead of exercising: report - Greater Victoria News
2024-05-07 in vicnews.comParticipaction says climate change is not helping in the push to move kids away from their screens
Tagged under: Children | Canada | Climate Change Impacts | Forest Fires | Women and Children
How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda Into Schools
2024-05-05 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageSTEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for oil and gas companies to indoctrinate children.
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
We’re being swallowed by the ocean and running out of freshwater
2024-05-04 (or before) in UNICEFThe reality of climate change for children in Maldives
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children | Oceans
Bangladesh: Extreme heat kicks 33 million children out of schools
2024-04-25 in The BBCBangladesh has closed schools and colleges due to extreme heat for the second year in a row.
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Extreme weather should be defined according to impacts on climate-vulnerable communities - Nature Climate Change
2024-04-23 in NatureDefining thresholds for extreme weather events is important for adaptation but often ignores impacts on climate-vulnerable communities. This research finds current practices do not capture experiences of women in informal settlements and self-reported impact data could help to address the issue.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Climate groups hail 'monumental' victory in European human rights legal ruling
2024-04-09 in Business GreenEuropean Court of Human Rights rules against Swiss government in landmark climate case brought by group of 2,000 women
Tagged under: Women and Children
Grand Chamber rulings in the climate change cases
2024-04-09 (or before) in echr.coe.intThe case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland concerned a complaint by four women and a Swiss association, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, whose members are concerned about the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health. They consider that the Swiss authorities are not taking sufficient action to mitigate the effects of climate change. The Court found that the Convention encompasses a right to effective protection by the State authorities from the serious adverse effects of climate change on lives, health, well-being and quality of life. However, it held that the four individual ap...
Tagged under: European Union | Litigation | Activism | Women and Children
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
2024-04-09 in The BBC"We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit," said one of the older Swiss women who won.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Join UNDP Weather Kids Climate Action for Children's Future
2024-03-24 (or before) in weatherkids.orgPledge for climate action with UNDP to protect our children's future. Your commitment can change the 2050 outlook. Act now!
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Extreme heat at work can double stillbirth risk, India study finds
2024-03-21 in The BBCWomen in India are found to be twice as likely to lose babies if they are working in hot conditions.
Tagged under: Women and Children | India
Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN
2024-03-21 in The GuardianWorld water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries
Tagged under: Women and Children | Drought
How the UK is falling behind on tackling child poverty
2024-03-17 (or before) in Financial TimesAlmost a third of children in the country are living in relative poverty, which has increased more than any advanced economy
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest
2024-03-14 in The GuardianThe long read: Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength
Tagged under: Women and Children | Activism
Palette to paycheck: the Lagos gallery helping children make a living from their art
2024-03-13 in The GuardianThe Children’s Art Gallery supports young Nigerian artists from low-income families, helping them sell their work around the world and build a better life
Tagged under: Women and Children | Nigeria | Africa | Children
Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says
2024-03-05 in The GuardianRural households led by women lose about 8% more income to heat stress than male-led families, data shows
Tagged under: Extreme Heat | Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Women and Children
Why South Korean women aren't having babies
2024-02-27 in The BBCSouth Korea has spent billions to reverse its low birth rate, but some say it isn't listening to young women’s needs.
Tagged under: Women and Children
DR Congo floods leave more than 2 million in need of aid: UNICEF
2024-02-08 in La Prensa LatinaKinshasa, Feb 8 (EFE).- More than 2 million people, 60 percent of them children, need humanitarian aid due to the floods in the last two months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund said. The Congo River, the world’s third largest by water discharge volume, has reached levels …
Tagged under: Rivers | Women and Children | Congo
Children’s emergency mental health referrals in England soar by 53%
2024-02-07 in The GuardianNHS data exposing a ‘devastating explosion’ of mental illness should be a ‘wake-up call’ for the government, MPs and health leaders say
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Experts lament ‘appalling decline’ in health of under-fives in UK
2024-02-05 in The GuardianAcademy for Medical Sciences report highlights rising infant mortality, obesity and tooth decay
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Women, girls suffer the most from climate displacement
2024-01-21 in Nation AfricaForced to leave their homes behind, this vulnerable population is bearing the biggest brunt of global warming
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Africa
Dark Matter Women WItnessing | Living on the Edge of Devastation
2024-01-18 (or before) in Dark Matter Women WItnessingDark Matter Women WItnessing |
Tagged under: Women and Children
Azerbaijan appoints no women to 28-member Cop29 climate committee
2024-01-15 in The GuardianCampaigners condemn decision as regressive, saying ‘climate change affects whole world, not half of it’
Tagged under: COP29 | Women and Children
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack
2024-01-13 in The GuardianCritics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal program to feed children from low-income families during summer break
Tagged under: US Politics | Women and Children | Children
Born into the Climate Crisis: Why we must act now to secure children’s rights | Save the Children’s Resource Centre
2023-11-30 (or before) by in resourcecentre.savethechildren.netTagged under: Women and Children
The scariest climate plot in the world
2023-11-14 by in The Climate Brinkdo not let small children read this
Tagged under: Collapse | Women and Children
‘The children screamed for hours’: horrors of Hurricane Otis leave devastation for Acapulco’s poorest
2023-11-04 in The GuardianMexico’s Pacific coast was battered by 165mph winds and torrential rain on 25 October. Thousands lost their homes and many now have too little food or water to survive
Tagged under: Mexico | Women and Children | Children
Court tosses EPA ban on pesticide linked to brain damage in kids
2023-11-02 in The HillA federal appeals court on Thursday is tossing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ban on a pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children. The decision from the 8th Circuit Cou…
Tagged under: Pesticides | Women and Children
Destitution in the UK 2023
2023-10-24 (or before) in Joseph Rowntree FoundationThis study, the fourth in the Destitution in the UK series, reveals approximately 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around 1 million children. There is an urgent need for action to tackle destitution in the UK.
Tagged under: Women and Children
UN Report: Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021
2023-10-10 (or before) in World Health OrganisationThe number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (1), according to a United Nations report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The 2022 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report presents updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healt...
Tagged under: Farming | Famine and Food Insecurity | Meat Production | Economic Growth | Health | Women and Children | Food Production and Consumption
‘Only the rich can bear this heat’: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather
2023-10-03 in The GuardianAs high temperatures hit the poor hardest, climate change may undo years of development gains, says Asia’s first heat officer
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
Extreme weather events linked to increased child and forced marriages
2023-09-14 in The GuardianResearchers say families under stress unable to support daughters and look to marry them off
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
In our blood: how the US allowed toxic chemicals to seep into our lives
2023-09-13 in The GuardianMany people don’t know the health risks from chemicals in common household products
Tagged under: PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Health | Women and Children | Children
Warming trends will likely result in major disturbances of networks of forest fungi
2023-09-08 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyChildren are taught to leave wild mushrooms alone because of their potential to be poisonous. But trees on the other hand depend on fungi for their well-being.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Trees | Children
“Business will kill your children:” Was Andrew Forrest’s climate speech really that “loopy”?
2023-09-03 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyAndrew Forrest has been described as “loopy” and weird for his striking speech that warns “humanity is at risk” and that “business will kill your children.” Just…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change
2023-08-30 (or before) in Office of the High Commissioner Human RightsCommittee on the Rights of the Child
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Children have right to clean environment - report - BBC News
2023-08-29 (or before) in The BBCThe UN says countries must act urgently to protect children from the harmful effects of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate, U.N. Panel Says
2023-08-28 in The New York TimesTagged under: Women and Children | Children
In the battle to save the world’s forests, women are leading the resistance | Elif Shafak
2023-08-26 in The GuardianFrom the Akbelen forest in Turkey to northern India to Brazil, rural women are standing up against the corporate chainsaw, says novelist Elif Shafak
Tagged under: Deforestation | Brazil | Women and Children | Trees | India
Misreading the Bengal Delta | University of Washington
2023-08-18 (or before) in University of WashingtonPerilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet, to what extent do adaptation projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers, and landless women, *Misreading the Bengal Delta* critiques development narratives of Bangladesh as a “climate change victim.” It examines how development actors repackage colonial-era modernizing projects, which have caused severe environmental effects, as clim...
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Flooding | Sea Level | Health | Women and Children | Finance
Fracking Linked to Increased Cases of Lymphoma in Pennsylvania Children, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
2023-08-16 by in Inside Climate NewsChildren living within a mile of a natural gas fracking well were up to seven times more likely to suffer from lymphoma, a rare kind of cancer, than those who had no such wells within five miles of their homes, according to a long-awaited study that adds to a growing number of investigations into possible […]
Tagged under: Fracking | Women and Children | Children
Drilling while the world burns - 99%
2023-08-05 by in 99 PercentIn a week when climate records have again been broken, fires rage across much of the world, and the UN Secretary General spoke of “children swept away by monsoon […]
Tagged under: Women and Children
‘What if everybody decided not to have children?’ The philosopher questioning humanity’s future
2023-07-22 in The GuardianÉmile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children | Extinction
Friends fly to Ibiza for 24 hours as tickets 'cheaper than London day trip'
2023-07-06 in Indy100 | News | Politics | YouTube and TikTok NewsTwo women who wanted a girls day out have documented their decision to spend £37 on a return flight to Ibiza for the day, after discovering it was far more expensive for them to go to London. Clare Jeffs and Hannah Brown had brunch, went to the beach, and hiked on the island before being home by midnight.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Opinion | Our Childrens’ Lungs Are Uniquely Vulnerable to All This Wildfire Smoke
2023-07-02 in The New York TimesTagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Climate crisis linked to rising domestic violence in south Asia, study finds
2023-06-28 in The GuardianIncrease of 1C in average annual temperature connected to more than 6% rise in physical and sexual domestic violence
Tagged under: Women and Children | India
Women's Institute pollution campaign a 'clarion call' - BBC News
2023-06-04 (or before) in The BBCThe initiative was sparked by Herefordshire member Christy Crouch and approved by members.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health and children are especially vulnerable
2023-05-17 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalI studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1989. Over six years as an undergraduate I was taught the science of medicine by teachers who were superb scientists and clinicians. I graduated with a keen sense of pathology, anatomy, microbiology and all the specialties. Unsurprisingly, I was acutely aware of how the politics of the day impacted on how I practised medicine in South Africa and from a very early undergraduate stage it didn’t take a genius to realise that ethnicity had a direct impact on the pattern of diseases and patient outcomes. Yet we were not taught about the social determinants of heal...
Tagged under: Africa | Health | Women and Children
Harrowing lives of children sent to work in English mills revealed in first study of kind
2023-05-17 in The GuardianResearch on remains of 19th-century ‘pauper apprentices’ shows bodies riddled with disease, in study that resonates today
Tagged under: Women and Children
The guilt I feel being a mum in the midst of a changing climate
2023-05-15 by in Women's Agenda - News for professional women and female entrepreneursBianca Sands, a member of Parents for Climate Action, explains why she sees speaking up on climate change as a duty of care as a parent.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
Our Global Voices
2023-05-08 (or before) in Population Health | GirlPlanet.EarthWomen's global voices on planetary health, culture and personal choices
Tagged under: Economics | Health | Women and Children
Air pollution causes harm at all stages of life - report - BBC News
2023-04-18 (or before) in The BBCThe study found exposure to certain particles can lead to miscarriages and stunt children's growth.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
What We Heard at a Climate Change Deniers' Meeting at Parliament
2023-04-09 (or before) in VICE"Children are completely indoctrinated into one point of view at schools up and down the country," said one of the speakers from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
‘Forever chemicals’ linked to infertility in women, study shows
2023-04-06 in The GuardianThose with higher levels of PFAS in their blood had 40% lower chance of conceiving within a year of trying
Tagged under: PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Health | Women and Children
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future
2023-03-28 in American Alliance of Museums - American Alliance of MuseumsFuturism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, Executive Direc…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
We should regulate SUVs out of existence | Financial Times
2023-03-27 (or before) in Financial TimesThey’re not only awful for the climate, they’re also killing pedestrians, including children in driveways
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Greta Thunberg and Sophia Kianni face disgusting misogyny from climate deniers | Red, Green, and Blue
2023-03-21 in Red, Green and BlueHappy Women’s History Month! Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that the climate disinformation sphere is once again filled with misogynistic attacks against women climate activists. By Climate Denier Roundup Recently, Greta Thunberg was targeted on social media for allegedly deleting a 2018 tweet that linked to an article that predicted climate change would wipe out humanity by 2023. However, …
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Activism | Disinformation and Misinformation | Women and Children
Still counting: Wellbeing, Women’s Work and Policy-making: Marilyn Waring
2023-03-12 (or before) in marilynwaring.comTagged under: Women and Children
Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
2023-03-11 (or before) in Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile IslandTagged under: Women and Children
Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak
2023-03-10 in The GuardianThe disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system
Tagged under: Africa | Health | Women and Children | Children
Rochford: Child protection referral lodged after oak tree loss - BBC News
2023-03-03 (or before) in The BBCChildren are at risk from extra pollution after a 100-year-old tree's removal, a councillor says.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
BREAKING: Barclays 7 given 2 years unconditional suspended sentence for breaking glass during an emergency - Extinction Rebellion UK
2023-01-27 by in Extinction Rebellion UKAt 4.30pm this afternoon, seven women attended sentencing at Southwark Crown Court in London for carefully cracking windows at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf, to draw attention to Barclays’ financing of fossil fuels and to call on the bank to stop accelerating the climate emergency. All seven women were given two years unconditional suspended sentences.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Fossil Fuels | Women and Children
Breaking the Silence: Kids’ Media Can Step Up On Climate Change - This Is Planet Ed
2022-12-07 (or before) in thisisplaneted.org“Breaking the Silence” shows kids’ media has a massive untapped opportunity to meet parent demand, help children navigate the world, and build a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable tomorrow.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time
2022-10-07 in The GuardianExclusive: Researchers concerned over potential health impacts of chemical contaminants on babies
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Health | Women and Children
USDA ERS - Key Statistics & Graphics
2022-09-17 (or before) in ers.usda.govCurrent trends, statistics, charts, and maps related to food security--access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children
Twelve angry children: young jurors call adults to account for climate crisis in The Trials
2022-08-04 in The GuardianDawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper, in rehearsal
Tagged under: Activism | Women and Children | Children
‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving
2022-06-20 in The GuardianAguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought
Tagged under: Drought | Africa | Women and Children | Children
Mothers at the searing edge of climate change in this hottest city on Earth
2022-06-15 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Pregnant women and new mothers are at the receiving end in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan as they battle heatwave in their daily lives.
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Climate Change | Women and Children
Here in Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning Even More Coal
2022-05-27 in The NationWith parents and children struggling to breathe, climate activism is a matter of life and death.
Tagged under: Coal | Fossil Fuels | Russia | Women and Children | Activism | Children
Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems
2022-05-22 (or before) in GOV.UKTagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Sustainability | Children
Children on the Road to Nowhere – Watching the World Go Bye
2022-05-15 (or before) in Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything BlogTagged under: Women and Children | Children
Bangladeshi children leaving school to work due to climate crisis | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2022-05-15 (or before) in Al JazeeraAs families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of country’s children are now labourers.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Pesticides and environmental injustice in the USA: root causes, current regulatory reinforcement and a path forward - BMC Public Health
2022-05-02 (or before) in bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.comMany environmental pollutants are known to have disproportionate effects on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) as well as communities of low-income and wealth. The reasons for these disproportionate effects are complex and involve hundreds of years of systematic oppression kept in place through structural racism and classism in the USA. Here we analyze the available literature and existing datasets to determine the extent to which disparities in exposure and harm exist for one of the most widespread pollutants in the world – pesticides. Our objective was to identify and discuss not only the historical injustices...
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children
The smell of money: why locals think Peru’s billion-dollar fishmeal sector stinks
2022-01-21 in The GuardianThose living in the coastal city of Chimbote say the industry pollutes the air and water, makes their children sick and has put local fishers out of work
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Women and Children
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth - Inside Climate News
2021-11-28 in Inside Climate NewsThis article is part of a series produced in partnership with NBC News and Undark Magazine, a non-profit, editorially independent digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society. It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the […]
Tagged under: Arctic | Russia | Women and Children | Children
Indigenous Women in Peru Seek to Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills - Inside Climate News
2021-11-05 in Inside Climate NewsIn Peru’s northern Amazon rainforest, across a million acres known as Lot 1AB, a parade of foreign oil companies have for over 50 years drilled, spilled crude and dumped billions of gallons of toxic “production water” on the once pristine land. Throughout that time, the firms have largely evaded responsibility for cleaning up the mess […]
Tagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Women and Children
Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes | Science
2021-10-08 in Science | AAASYoung generations are severely threatened by climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice | Women and Children | Children
Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey
2021-09-22 in NatureChildren worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found. Children worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found.
Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children | Children
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health
2021-09-06 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalWealthy nations must do much more, much faster The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we—the editors of health journals worldwide—call for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health. Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the des...
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Health | Women and Children | Biodiversity Loss
‘Use your £11bn climate fund to pay for family planning,’ UK told
2021-08-26 in The GuardianMore than 60 NGOs call for spending rule change, saying people on frontline of climate crisis want greater access to reproductive healthcare
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Health | Women and Children | Finance
The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis
2021-08-20 (or before) in UNICEFIntroducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum | Meryl Batchelder
2021-08-19 in The GuardianSustainability and the environment should be a thread running through every subject, says science teacher Meryl Batchelder
Tagged under: Women and Children | Sustainability | Children
Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
2021-04-30 in The GuardianExclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Fossil Fuels | Women and Children | Children
Evidence of Fracking Chemicals Found in Bodies of Pennsylvania Children
2021-03-23 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismOne 9-year-old had 91 times the average level of biomarkers for toluene, a chemical that can damage livers and kidneys.
Tagged under: Fracking | Women and Children | Children
This Bioplastic Made From Fish Scales Just Won the James Dyson Award
2021-03-07 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineBritish product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Women and Children | Sustainability | Innovation
CIFF: Children's Investment Fund Foundation
2021-03-05 (or before) in CIFF: Children's Investment Fund FoundationTagged under: Women and Children | Children
Juliana v. United States — Our Children's Trust
2021-02-16 (or before) in Our Children's TrustTagged under: Women and Children | Children
The life-altering effects heat is having on American children
2021-02-16 in The GuardianGlobal heating takes a disproportionate toll on Black and Latino children – and the danger begins before they are even born
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
How one oil industry group went to bizarre lengths to market natural gas to women
2020-12-15 by in Canada's National ObserverThe website Women for Natural Gas is a pink-tinged, fancy-cursive-drenched love letter to the oil and gas industry, complete with testimonials from several women. But there’s a catch: The women don’t exist.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change - Climatic Change
2020-11-27 (or before) in Springer VerlagMedia reports and public polls suggest that young people in many countries are increasingly factoring climate change into their reproductive choices, but empirical evidence about this phenomenon is lacking. This article reviews the scholarship on this subject and discusses the results of the first empirical study focused on it, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 607 US-Americans between the ages of 27 and 45. While 59.8% of respondents reported being “very” or “extremely concerned” about the carbon footprint of procreation, 96.5% of respondents were “very” or “extremely concerned&r...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Women and Children | Climate Change Mitigation | Children
Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
2020-11-27 in The GuardianSurvey of 600 people finds some parents regret having offspring for same reason
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Greta Thunberg guest edits Assembly’s climate issue — Assembly | Malala Fund
2020-11-19 (or before) in Assembly | Malala FundThis issue of Assembly is dedicated to all the young women on the front lines of the climate movement.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Women and Children
Reuters finds 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s
2020-09-01 (or before) in ReutersSince last year, Reuters has obtained neighborhood-level blood lead testing results for 34 states and the District of Columbia. This data allows the public its first hyper-local look at communities where children tested positive for lead exposure in recent years.
Tagged under: USA | Louisiana | California | Health | Women and Children | Children
On coronavirus, men are calling all the shots. We're seeing why it matters | Gaby Hinsliff
2020-05-22 in The GuardianWomen are naturally more cautious: would the government have made so many missteps over the lockdown if it was more inclusive, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Tagged under: Women and Children
Coronavirus shows us it’s time to rethink everything. Let's start with education | George Monbiot
2020-05-12 in The GuardianThe pandemic is a tough lesson in the workings of the natural world – and proves how vital a knowledge of ecology really is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Greta Thunberg and children's group hit back at attempt to throw out climate case
2020-05-05 in The GuardianBrazil, France and Germany say UN can’t hear complaint against five countries of flouting child rights to clean air
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Brazil | Germany | France | Women and Children | Children
World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet
2020-02-19 (or before) in World Health OrganisationNo single country is adequately protecting children’s health, their environment and their futures, finds a landmark report released today by a Commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. As climate and commercial threats intensify, WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission presses for radical rethink on child health.
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
The world is failing to ensure children have a 'liveable planet', report finds
2020-02-19 in The GuardianChildren with tiny carbon footprint suffer twofold from poor health and effects of the climate crisis
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
'Modi is afraid': women take lead in India's citizenship protests
2020-01-21 in The GuardianHousewives, grandmothers and students in Delhi at centre of resistance to new citizenship laws
Tagged under: Women and Children | Activism | India
CHILDREN Of The Ignorant : New Zealand Schools To Terrify Children About The ‘Climate Crisis’
2020-01-14 in Anthropogenic Climate - TRACKING ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE ALARMISM“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will nev…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
2019-12-16 in The GuardianDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
Tagged under: Tesla | Congo | Cobalt | Africa | Women and Children | Children
The Human Rights of Children Depend on Urgent Climate Action - The WorldPost - Berggruen Institute
2019-12-10 (or before) in Berggruen InstituteFailing to stop fossil fuel production violates children’s rights to life and health.
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Child miners aged four at Congo cobalt mine | Daily Mail Online
2019-12-01 (or before) in Daily Mail OnlineDorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.
Tagged under: Congo | Cobalt | Health | Women and Children | Children
Climate crisis will affect lifelong health of young, warn doctors
2019-11-13 in The GuardianLancet Countdown tracks impacts of global heating covering disease, wildfires and malnutrition
Tagged under: Wildfires | Health | Women and Children | Children
Heathrow expansion violates climate rights of children, say lawyers
2019-10-17 in The GuardianAppeal court to hear fresh challenge against plans for construction of third runway
Tagged under: Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Air Travel | Women and Children | Children
There is Nothing Naïve About Moral Clarity | by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | Medium
2019-09-28 (or before) in MediumWe should approach the climate crisis with the moral clarity of children. Some things are simply right and some things are simply wrong.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Greta Thunberg, 15 kids file UN complaint to force nations to fight climate change
2019-09-23 in Climate Liability Newsprint By Karen Savage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people from around the world have filed a human rights complaint against five countries for continuing to promote fossil fuels and failing to reduce carbon emissions. The group has asked the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to …
Tagged under: Litigation | Climate Change | United Nations | Greta Thunberg | Activism | Children | Women and Children
Parents told not to terrify children over climate change as rising numbers treated for 'eco-anxiety'
2019-09-17 (or before) in The TelegraphRising numbers of children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, experts have said, as they warn parents against “terrifying” their youngsters with talk of climate catastrophe.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children | Children
UK is 'sleepwalking into crisis of childhood', charity warns
2019-07-08 in The GuardianAction for Children found young people struggle to fit in and worry about issues such as Brexit
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across Europe
2019-06-24 in The GuardianTemperatures could hit 40C from Spain to Switzerland, with authorities urging children and older people to stay indoors
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Women and Children | France | Children
In Just One Decade, Corporations Destroyed 50 Million Hectares of Forest—An Area the Size of Spain
2019-06-11 (or before) in Common Dreams"These companies are destroying our children's future by driving us towards climate and ecological collapse."
Tagged under: Collapse | Women and Children | Trees
Analysis: Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents
2019-04-10 by in Carbon BriefGlobal emissions of CO2 need to decline precipitously over the next few decades, if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to “well below 2C” and, ideally, below 1.5C.
Tagged under: Women and Children
Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints
2019-04-10 in The GuardianNext generation must keep their own carbon levels at a fraction of their grandparents’ in order to prevent catastrophe
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Women and Children | Children
Capitalism is destroying the Earth. We need a new human right for future generations | George Monbiot
2019-03-15 in The GuardianThe children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism | Women and Children | Children | Activism
Making the case for emergency climate action - Climate Emergency Declaration
2018-09-12 by in Climate Emergency Declaration - Call to declare a climate emergencyBy Jane Morton As climate catastrophe looms ever closer, some opinion leaders still hold fast to the view that we must not mention the seriousness of our plight for fear of demoralising people. But how could we explain to our children, in some dystopian future of runaway global warming, that we held back from telling Read more about Making the case for emergency climate action[…]
Tagged under: Women and Children
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