Almost every child on Earth will face frequent heatwaves by 2050: UNICEF

Almost every child will suffer from heat waves by 2050

UNITED NATIONS: Hot weather has become a health risk for many nations, but new data shows that almost every child on Earth will be affected by heat waves by 2050, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) warned on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila).According to the UN agency, at least half a billion youngsters are already exposed to a high number of heat waves due to climate change.By the middle of this century, it estimates that more than 2 billion children …

UNICEF report: Almost every child on earth will suffer from heatwaves by 2050

UNITED NATIONS, United States -- Hot weather has become a health risk for many nations, but new data shows that almost every child on earth will be affected by heatwaves by 2050, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday. Children spend time in a spring during a heatwave near Jerusalem,

Virtually every child to be exposed to frequent heatwaves by 2050: UN agency

At a minimum, governments must urgently limit global heating to 1.5°C, says Unicef executive director Catherine Russell

UNICEF report: Almost every child on earth will suffer from heatwaves by 2050 - China.org.cn

Almost every child on Earth will suffer from heat waves by 2050

Hot weather has become a health risk for many nations, but new data shows that almost every child on Earth will be affected by heat waves by 2050, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.

Almost every child on Earth will face frequent heat waves by 2050: UNICEF

Nearly all the world’s 2 billion children will be exposed to frequent heat waves by 2050, according to a new report from UNICEF. Already today, around 559 million — or 24 percent — of the world’s children are exposed to high heat wave frequency, or an average of 4.5 or more heat waves annually, the report found. It […]